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The Greatbong Blog & Podcast
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The Greatbong Blog & Podcast is a personal blog at greatbong.net about culture and politics. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for opinionated, satirical takes on Indian politics and bureaucracy, plus posts on films, the Olympics and Satyajit Ray. Comments cite individual posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dispensing unsolicited opinions since 2004
What Hacker News says?
As someone wrote:[1] > Let’s say I made a movie about the US where an African-American boy born in the hood, has his mother sell him to a pedophile pop icon, after which he gets molested by a priest from his church, following which he gets tied up to the back of a truck and dragged on the road by KKK clansmen. Then he is arrested and sodomized by a policeman with a rod, after which he is attacked by a gang of illega…
Comment linking /2008/12/29/slumdog-millionaire-the-review/
on “Fake IMDB credits”Submitted An open letter to prospective Indian employer as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSatyajit Ray was a master storyteller. In the same league as Kurusova or Miyazaki. His stories seemed simple and yet had some unknown power that gripped your heart. I remembering crying the first time I saw the Pather Panchali trilogy as a kid. I never understood why. Some little know facts about Ray : 1. His first movie Pather Panchali (Song of the Road) faced financial issues. A good friend of Ray convinced the Co…
Comment linking /2005/07/27/pather-panchali-an-intensely-personal-review/
on “When Satyajit Ray Came to Hollywood”Submitted Empathy and Global Corporation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA different take on this [1]: > The human and financial costs of that, I believe, are something we as a nation can ill-afford. [1] http://greatbong.net/2012/08/07/some-thoughts-on-the-olympic...
Comment linking /2012/08/07/some-thoughts-on-the-olympics/
on “Show HN: Olympics Ranking Adjusted by Population (Evening Project)”Submitted Goodbye Leonard Nimoy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wish everyone realizes what a joke this publicity-seeking exercise of a politician/bureacrat is (just as the so-called $10 laptop was). Discussing the technical merits or demerits of this whole absurdity would only give it more legitimacy. Instead, I would humbly point you to http://greatbong.net/2010/10/14/the-grand-secret-os/ , which recognizes this for what it actually is. At least you can have some fun talking…
Comment linking /2010/10/14/the-grand-secret-os/
on “Indian OS”Submitted An open letter to Obama, on his recent visit to India as a story · 1 points
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