Author: B Shantanu

Comrades-in-arms: UPA & Pakistani “militants”

Most of you must have already read about the clumsy handling of the SethuSamudram affidavit by UPA last week. But this particular post on the issue caught my eye. In “The Ramayana, the Sethusamudram...

Good news and bad news..

Fellow observers of nascent efforts at reforming the political system in India might have already read about some important news from the past few days. It is a mix of good and bad (in my...

On Jeans, Indian Men and “Indecent Behaviour”

I stumbled across this news-story  Jeans for boys, seminary tells women students a few days back and it immediately struck a chord. The report mentioned (emphasis mine): A mufti of the seminary (Darul Uloom),...