How to earn Rs 10 crores+ a month
More than two years ago, in a post dealing with politics and corruption, I wrote: This is a subject with such rich pickings (pun unintended)…that I am seriously considering a series on “How to...
Author: B Shantanu
Ministers behaving badly…
… as in paying “taxes” to “militants”… or is it “protection money”? If you ever wondered how bad the situation is in the North-East, look no further. Courtesy this news-report by Rahul Karmakar (HT)*:...
Is Sanskrit really a “Indo-European” language?
Thanks to Dr Kalyananraman-ji for alerting me to this. In this well-argued and researched essay titled, Colonial Constructs about Indian Languages, Shishir Thadani explains why there may be a lot more in common between...
On Open Defecation, Hygiene and India Shining – Part – II
Following on from Part-I last week. First in this part, excerpts from Out of the fields, behind closed doors by Tasneem Nashrulla (emphasis mine). This gives some hope. *** Excerpts Begin *** Like most...
On Marriage, the Islamic Republic and a 112-year old groom
From a Guardian news-item dt. 29th Oct ’09, Somali man aged 112 marries girl of 117: He is old enough to be her great-great-grandfather. But Ahmed Muhamed Dhore, a Somalian who claims he is...
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