Author: B Shantanu

Time to nail the Muslim backwardness myth?

From a front page story in “The Economic Times” today (Apr 5, ’07) titled, “Hindu, Muslim equal in income”*: “Forget all half-baked opinions you may have heard on the economic state of religious communities...

The “Raja-Mandala” approach to containing Pakistan

A few days ago, I chanced upon this article by Vanni Cappelli (freelance journalist; co-founder and president of the Afghanistan Foreign Press Association) titled “Containing Pakistan: Engaging the Raja-Mandala in South-Central Asia” Vanni starts by...

A ray of hope…

After a failed earlier attempt at getting to speak with representatives of some of the newly formed political parties (Lok Paritran, Bharat Punarnirman Dal and Bharat Yuva Mission), I am very pleased that yesterday,...

Sirpur: A forgotten medieval cosmopolis

A report on how archeological research is changing some of our fundamental ideas and mis-conceptions about the history and prosperity of medieval Bharat: From Finding Sirpur, by Chitra Ramaswamy, some excerpts: “…Standing on the...

After Christian Yoga, Islamic Yoga*…

…just kidding. On a more serious note, in Hindu Voice UK, Anish Shah recently wrote about the trend to ignore (or de-link) Hindu traditions from their origins and pretend that these were really secular...