Author: B Shantanu

Continued ignorance about Hinduism…

Meanwhile, ignorance about the basics of Hinduism keeps cropping up in unexpected places…even as a major BBC series (“In Search of God”) mysteriously ignores Hinduism (practiced by more than 800m people; ~15% of the...

Some plain talking…

At least someone has the guts to say it the way it is. John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York and the second most senior figure in the Church’s hierarchy made news with this interview with the...

When will we have our own media channel?

I continue to feel very frustrated that in spite of the massive explosion in media and TV channels in India, there still is not a single channel (or a newspaper – although Pioneer and...

“No Dates, No Dancing” – TIME

Eye-opening article from the recent issue of TIME by Aryn Baker: “No Dates, No Dancing“. Excerpts: “…But to Westerners, there’s little else about Punjab U. that seems familiar. Walk around the leafy-green 1,800-acre campus,...

China, Africa and realpolitik

Came across these statistics in a presentation by Sebastian Teunissen , a Professor at Univ. of California.  Pl. read in conjunction with my earlier post on this topic (“China’s investment and expansion in Africa”) and you...