Author: B Shantanu

What has Asia go to do with Sudan and UK?

An alert reader sent me this great example of politically perfect reporting (emphasis mine): Police are investigating a racially motivated act of vandalism which was linked to the case of the British teacher who...

Democracy in Pakistan? You must be joking!

Came across this superb tongue-in-cheek post by Mark Anderson: The Pakistan Play. Excerpts (emphasis mine): “Let’s see if I have this right. Every country in the Middle East (except Israel) is a dictatorship, specifically...

Reassessing Mahatma: Did Gandhi-giri really work?

Several weeks ago, I came across this piece by Dr Dipak Basu (Professor in International Economics in Nagasaki University, Japan), examining the role of Satyagraha in the national freedom movement. Until I read the...

Source of “Satyameva Jayate”

In the middle of some idle web-surfing a few days ago, I hit upon the source of “Satyameva Jayate” From Nila-Kantha-Chandra’s blog: “…as I was rapidly scanning the Sanskrit verses of the Mundaka, I...

On Artistic Freedom, Censorship and Responsibility

*** This is a hurried post stolen from a 20-min window at work *** Dear Readers, This has proven to be a great discussion…Unfortunately at times, (I feel) it has bordered on the idealistic...