Author: B Shantanu

China’s long march to superpower status

Came across this thought provoking story in a recent edition of The Economist on China’s military might, “The long march to be a superpower” (Aug 2nd ’07 edition). Some excerpts (emphasis mine) “…American global...

A fresh look at Reservations and Quotas

This has been one of my longest posts in the making…taking almost two months since I first started putting down my thoughts on this issue. To a large extent this was because I wanted...

Eight little known facts about me

Before you accuse me of being a narcissist, blame Varnam! 🙂 He tagged me a few weeks ago which prompted this post. Here are eight little known facts about me: First “ambition” was to...

Can Muslims change their religion?

This is good news in as much as it promotes the idea of choice and freedom for each individual to choose his or her own faith… Is this yet another indication of a reformation...

Offline for a week…

Starting this Friday (3rd), I will be offline (more or less) for a week or so. During this period, I will try wordpress’ scheduling feature – which will help me post stuff that I have written...