Author: B Shantanu

End big-time corruption? I dont think so…

Stumbled across this a few days back: “End big time corruption, PM tells Indians“. I find it hard to agree. The major problem is “small time” corruption: the licenses, the permits, the restrictions, the delays,...

AIDS’ first casualty in India: Truth

A few days ago, I came across the BBC new story on why the numbers for AIDS patients in India may be an overestimate: India ‘overestimates’ HIV/Aids” (Wednesday, 13 December 2006). The study suggested...

Weekend catch-up on Blogosphere

One of the things I am hoping to get better at (and do more of) is a quick (but broad) sweep of the blogosphere to pick up posts from fellow bloggers that I find interesting...

India vs. Bharat

Very worrying article about how the rural-urban divide seems to be widening in India/ Bharat. The other notable point is how rural, backward, under-developed parts of the country are now routinely labelled as “Bharat”....

More on Munnabhai vs. Manish Pitambare…

Friends,�� Thanks for all your comments to my post ” Of Stars and Martyrs, Munnabhai vs. Manish Pitambare“ It brought up deep feelings and emotions and I think the thoughts deserve a follow-up and...