Author: B Shantanu

No national anthem please…we have foreigners here

Just came across this item from yesterday’s Deccan Herald: “National anthem could make foreigners at Infy uneasy: NRN” According to this report, the national anthem was not sung during the visit of President Kalam’s...

The “Talibanisation” of Pakistan…

…is now a REAL possibility. Close on the heels of mention in my last post about the Pakistani moral police, I came across this piece of news in today’s newspapers: “Pakistan minister earns clergy’s...

Dumb and Dumber…

Amidst the controversy surrounding the CBSE textbooks on sex education in India (Karnataka became the latest state to join the ban brigade, following Maharashtra and before that, Kerala, Gujarat and MP), several reports mention the...

Comment on “Religion Without Truth”

In an interesting essay in the New York Times*, Stanley Fish, Professor of Law at Florida International University, discusses whether religion (and specifically Bible) can ever be taught without taking into account the “truth”...

Now its the turn of Iran…

Chidanand Rajghatta wrote in The Times of India two days ago about how US may be using Pakistan  in efforts to destabilise the current regime in Iran (“US using Pakistan to destabilise Iran“). As...