Greek Thoughts, Indian Roots?
A few weeks ago, I came across Sanjeev Sabhlok’s article on how (and why) the ideas of liberty – so celebrated in the western world today – may actually have had their origins in...
Monthly Archive: November 2009
Correcting “History” – one bit at a time
Yesterday morning, while reading Jamiat has undone its past good work by Javed Ansari, I got stuck at the very first sentence: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind is one of countless organisations that claim to represent...
How to earn Rs 10 crores+ a month
More than two years ago, in a post dealing with politics and corruption, I wrote: This is a subject with such rich pickings (pun unintended)…that I am seriously considering a series on “How to...
Ministers behaving badly…
… as in paying “taxes” to “militants”… or is it “protection money”? If you ever wondered how bad the situation is in the North-East, look no further. Courtesy this news-report by Rahul Karmakar (HT)*:...
Is Sanskrit really a “Indo-European” language?
Thanks to Dr Kalyananraman-ji for alerting me to this. In this well-argued and researched essay titled, Colonial Constructs about Indian Languages, Shishir Thadani explains why there may be a lot more in common between...
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