Author: B Shantanu

Deprivation’s real cause: English

Mohan-ji recently forwarded me this excellent article by Madhu Kishwar* titled, “Deprivations real language” . Madhu-ji writes how amidst the furore over reservations and quotas, people are forgetting the fundamental issue regarding English –...

What is common to “Happy Diwali” and booze in taxis?

Apparently, both are “haraam” in Islam. Below are two completely different news reports…but both equally unbelievable – and both left me aghast. “Don’t Bring That Booze into My Taxi” in which Daniel Pipes has...

The Pakistan connection to North Korea’s nuclear test

Yesterday, I came across a great piece of analysis by Rohit Pattnaik (Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi) titled, “The Impact of North Korea’s Nuclear Test“. It shows...

In Search of a “Hindu” Identity – II

Yesterday, In Search of a “Hindu” Identity got published on IndiaCause and almost immediately began to attract responses and comments. I am immensely gratified and heartened by the overwhelming response to this essay –...

The Rail Line to Tibet…

Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph also had an article on the newly opened railway line to Lhasa, “Feeling low on the roof of the world” The article reinforced some of the fears that I had expressed in...