After India’s grossly poor, uninspired and gutless performance in the Hockey World Cup, I want to repeat what I had written just over an year ago…

In Affectionate Remembrance of

Indian Hockey,

which died at Mönchengladbach,

on 12th September, 2006.

Deeply lamented by a small circle of
sorrowing friends and acquaintances.

R.I.P

N.B. - The body will be cremated and the
ashes taken to K.P.S. Gill’s residence.

Note: For those who don’t know the context of this funerary message, do check here.

Google and Yahoo’s capitulation to Chinese censorship demands is well-known. And with Chinese State tightening its grip on information, it has come as a pleasant surprise that Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has announced that Wikipedia will not bow to censorship of politically sensitive material in China.

Wales said censorship was ‘ antithetical to the philosophy of Wikipedia. We occupy a position in the culture that I wish Google would take up, which is that we stand for the freedom for information, and for us to compromise I think would send very much the wrong signal: that there’s no one left on the planet who’s willing to say “You know what? We’re not going to give up.”‘

Way to go Jimbo!!