Author: B Shantanu

Don’t wear a “tilak” to work !

aka The joys of living in “Secular India”. Some of you must have already read the “news” from yesterday about the government officer in Bihar who faces suspension for coming to work with a “tilak”...

Of Vimanas and Time Travel

This post has been deleted either because (i) I no longer agree with the content or conclusion (ii) it has factual inaccuracies that I’ve become aware of (iii) it is obsolete and/or has been...

Help! someone’s stealing my blog posts!

Yesterday, I became a victim of splogging. After blogging for three years, I was actually quite thrilled. Someone actually found my posts worth “stealing”! Wikipedia describes “splogs” as: Spam blogs, sometimes referred to by the neologism...

We know its Pakistan but we hope its not!

Three days after the tragedy in Hyderabad, here is what our Hon. Ext Affairs Minister had to say*: Pakistani missions in several other countries have been indulging in anti-India propaganda, External Affairs Minister Pranab...

No more “Christian Yoga”

Came across this story from Simon de Bruxelles in The Times (of London) today (Aug31 ’07): Vicars ban “un-Christian” yoga for toddlers. It appears to “confirm” Yoga’s roots in Hinduism! Excerpts (emphasis mine): “A...