Dear All, I received this longish email from Dr Kalyanaraman-ji detailing several positions and vacancies related to Indic studies at various academic institutions (mostly outside India). I am reproducing it in full in the hope that it might be useful for scholars in various academic institutions in India with regards their professional careers.
Important Disclaimer: I have no information other than what I have shared below about these positions. Even more importantly, I am in no position to comment, advise or otherwise remark on any of these vacancies as I have …

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Thanks to Radha-ji for alerting me to this extraordinary story of Uday Gatti…Pl read on (emphasis added)…
Say ‘stray dog menace’ and you’re bound to hear opinions from all sides of the spectrum. But when a stray dies, so does the clamour and it’s left to the likes of Uday Gatti to bury the dead.
Gatti (42), who runs a shop near Pilar in Someshwara gram panchayat limits near Tokottu in Mangalore, has buried at least 40 dogs so far though he’s lost count of the actual number. “This is my service …

From a letter written by Swami Vivekananda to Shrimati Sarala Ghoshal — Editor, Bharati in April 1897
In this battle of life, men are rare who encourage the initiator of new thought,
not to speak of women who would offer him encouragement, particularly in our unfortunate land…

And so it is, that on this birthday of my wife, I once again remind myself how fortunate and blessed I am…lucky to have her and grateful for her unstinted support and faith in my efforts…
|| Shubh Makar Sankranti, Pongal and Bhogali Bihu ||

Related: A …

Just over two years ago, I took a step which felt dangerous, uncertain and hugely risky…As I wrote on my blog at the time (October 2008):
So what exactly do I plan to do?
First, I am reducing my hours of “paid employment”. Starting this December (2008), I will be working part-time on two or three different ideas/companies. Most of this work will have to do with innovation, entrepreneurship, venture capital…
…Second, I am setting aside at least two days a week to do things which I loosely combine under the …

Dear Friends: Thanks to your unstinted support and encouragement, what started as a simple newsletter almost six years ago has turned into a repository of 1200+ articles and 16000+ comments on subjects ranging from “An Indian Identity” to “Women in Hinduism and India“
In the process, some of the user-friendliness may have been lost. This brief primer is meant to help you make the most of my personal “knowledge management system”!
There are now 1200+ posts on this blog. You can rely on serendipity to …

…I mean holding their own umbrella?

Image courtesy: TIME Magazine

Context:
US President Barack Obama tries to speak in a driving rainstorm during Memorial Day observances at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery near Elwood, Illinois, USA, 31 May 2010. Memorial Day is observed in honor of U.S. service men and women who have sacrificed their lives for their country.
Tannen Murray / EPA
Comments, thoughts welcome.
By the way, President Obama is not alone:

I stumbled on this comment by Bhagwad Jal Park on his blog yesterday morning (pl see his comment dt Oct 16, 2010 at 5:56am; emphasis added):
…Satyameva Jayate..comments are more decent, though I find the topics are vigorously pro Hindu and anti Muslim.

Now, this is neither the first time – nor will it be the last (a recent instance at comment #114 here) – that I have been called anti-Muslim, Hindu fanatic, Hindu fascist, Muslim-hater, right-wing fascist etc etc….and I understand that there is a nuance here between me being “anti-something” …

…NOT by giving to charity – or donating. But by investing in and helping, a hard-working woman earn a livelihood, live with dignity and get prosperous.
This is a brief story about RangDe…Some – perhaps quite a few – of you may have already heard of RangDe.org, a great social investment initiative that was launched more than 2 years back…Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Ram and Smita – the husband-wife team who conceived “Rang De” and who are the main energy behind this amazing effort.
Rang De’s mission is …

Dear All: Over the next few weeks, you will begin to see small but noticeable changes to the blog…These changes are a result of several factors – most importantly, my increasing involvement with events and activities on the ground (“offline”) and my intense travel schedule over the next several months (and possibly foreseeable future)…I have also been thinking very hard about how to increase interaction with readers on topics of critical importance (policies as well as situation analyses)…You will begin to see more of “Live Chats”, Skype conference calls and …