We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the read more

We've been campaigning against controls on the Internet in China for many years now. We've been particularly concerned about the number of people who have been put in prison just for expressing their opinion on the Internet, or for accessing certain information that the government finds threatening or embarrassing.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be read more

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have.

If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have.

When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, read more

When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, you don't have much choice but to move on.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence read more

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

There has been an attitudinal shift in the railways. They are trying to respond to market needs, but there is read more

There has been an attitudinal shift in the railways. They are trying to respond to market needs, but there is no denying the fact that the government of India is not able to invest in infrastructure in the way that China is.

Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.

Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.

I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon.

I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon.

AVID changes how public schools teach. It provides struggling students, kids in the middle with intensive tutoring and shows them read more

AVID changes how public schools teach. It provides struggling students, kids in the middle with intensive tutoring and shows them how to succeed.