Author: B Shantanu

Will we ever do this?

Yesterday, I read in the Dail Telegraph  about the deportation of illegal Georgian immigrants by Russian authorities. I wonder whether our government even acknowledges the millions of illegal immgrants present the country? Arun Shourie...

Please, no “M-word” here…

Windsor in UK has been the centre of some small-scale (relatively speaking) rioting centred around a “Muslim-run dairy which has become an unofficial prayer centre for workers. Nothing wrong with that you would think...

The Largest Genocide in History?

In response to a question on the “genocide of Hindus” on Yahoo! groups, Kalavai Venkat wrote the following: Please see Koenraad Elst (http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/books/negaind/ch2.htm): As a contribution to research on the quantity of the Islamic...

B Raman on Musharraf, Kargil and lies…

Great analysis from B Raman: Musharraf: Throwing Dust in His Own Eyes”  In the article, Shri B Raman’s cites some instances of Gen Musharraf’s falsehoods: Till Musharraf was appointed the COAS by Mr. Sharif in...

India in the 1820s…

I first came across this graph on Greg Mankiw’s blog. Greg is a Professor of Economics at Harvard and he was referring an article written by Michael Milken (the former junk-bond king who fell into disgrace) in a recent...