Author: B Shantanu

A big thank you…

…to Pragya who painstakingly went through all the uncategorized posts on my blog (going back all the way to 2004) and categorized them neatly – thus creating a powerful index of archives and even...

More on origin & usage of the word “Hindu”

A few days ago, I came across this email from Arjuna in which he was responding to an assertion regarding foreign origin of the word “Hindu”. I have written on this before (see e.g. here and more recently,...

How to earn Rs 50 crores in 5 years

…actually I don’t really know. But perhaps Behen Mayawati-ji may have some tips to share. This is a subject with such rich pickings (pun unintended) and I am seriously considering a series on “How to earn Rs XYZ...

Thank God for Democracy!

From an article in  TIME, “China Limits Teenage Internet Gaming“: “…Under new rules that took effect Monday, Chinese Internet gaming companies must install a program that requires users to enter their ID card numbers....

3 yrs, 300 posts, 900 comments…

… (but) miles to go before I sleep… Last week,  my blog turned three years old and received its 900th comment to its 300th post*.  This has been a hard journey…but more than worth all the effort and...