Author: B Shantanu

RSS Feed is now “live” on this blog…

Friends and Dear Readers, I have recently started a feed of my posts which I would enourage you to subscribe to. Why should you bother? A feed can be better and more efficient than...

Time for “Water” under the bridge…?

Deepa Mehta is shocked at Kunal Kohli’s remark that he would have preferred “Rang De Basanti” winning over “Water” at the Oscars. In her comment she also said, “Caste and gender discrimination…(have) as much...

This must be the last word on origin of “Hindu”…

This essay�is beyond any doubt one of the best explanations of the origin of the word “Hindu” I have come across. In this scholarly and meticulously researched essay, Dr Pahoja has refuted claims that...

Misconceptions about Hinduism continue…

I recently came across a post titled “The Real Problem is not Islam” on this blog to which I added the comment posted below. The reason for posting my comment here is to highlight...

A grass-roots response to Naxal terror

Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, a Mumbai-based academy for training and research recently( Feb 14, �07) organised a Seminar in New Delhi on �Innovative Strategies to counter Naxalism: Experiment of Salva Judum.��� I received a summary...