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Mr. Tharoor's article is here

And I quote,

.. But this time the terrorists may have gone too far. The murderers of Mumbai made special efforts to single out American and British nationals among their hostages, and they killed the Israelis running Mumbai's Jewish center. This was clearly not just an attack on India; they were taking on the "Jews and crusaders" of al-Qaeda lore. If it turns out that the massacre in Mumbai was planned in or directed from Pakistani territory, the consequences for Pakistan are bound to be severe..

He considers the terrorists having "gone too far" *only* when they targeted foreign nationals? Really? Is this sentiment echoed by everyone now? Agreeably, the states who were targeted are powerful militarily and dominate geo-political debates with firm voices - but can India afford to have its own commentators not bring the government to task at its inefficacy?

My attempts at creating a list of movies I want to see. Comments welcome on additional ideas! You know that feeling when someone tells you of an *awesome* movie thats highly recommended that you forget about the next day - and then rack your brain to remember what it was?

This post is intended to help alleviate that!

Updates: (I realized I've seen a bunch of these already, but keeping them here for completeness's sake!)

Maria - full of grace
City of Angels
Cinema Paradiso
Before Sunset (*)
Before Sunrise (*)
Shine
Ondskan
Stardust Memories
Romance and Cigarettes

I've been thinking about whether I should migrate old blog (2001-2007) entries to this site's new avatar. On one hand, they speak volumes about what I was thinking about at that point and are fun (mostly only to me) to look back upon. And that is the flip side as well - you tend to reflect on how crazy/stupid you were from your 2008 persona.

Hmm.

Oh well, there's always the Wayback machine to keep log of stuff :)