Monthly Archive: June 2009

Notes from India

Back from a hurried and intense 5-day visit to Pune and Bengaluru. I am getting more involved in some exciting initiative(s) at Pune and foresee more frequent visits to the city…Updates in due course....

W’end Links: Nehru, Astrology, History and Obama

Start your weekend with this fascinating article on “Jawaharlal Nehru and Astrology” by K N Rao (Thanks to Sh Krishen Kak for alerting me to this): …Nehru was a Kashmiri pandit, His uncle Bansidhar...

Deja-vu: Remembering the Future*

According to this article, “Déjà vu — French for “already seen” — describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously“. The author also mention that “the experience...

India is “secular” because…

…of Indian Hindus. M J Akbar in BJP, Left face existential dilemma: India is not a secular nation because Indian Muslims want it to be secular. India is a secular nation because Indian Hindus...