Silence of the Lambs*
Stumbled on this last week… Excerpts from Why this silence on organised anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh? by Dr. Richard Benkin (July 23, ’09): Reports began trickling out of Bangladesh this spring about an anti-Hindu...
Author: B Shantanu
Of “Argumentative Indians” and “Functional Anarchy”
This post is really an extract from a discussion on one of the Yahoo! groups I subscribe to. The discussion was triggered by an email from Prof. Michael Witzel in which he wrote (amongst...
Uh, Oh!
How many of you missed this? I did (emphasis added). Prior to the 13th round of India-China boundary talks, Indian defence and security agencies reported an increased spurt in “intrusions” and “incursions” by the...
Sharada Tirtha – A forgotten bit of Kashmir
I first heard about “Sharada Tirtha” (Sharada Temple) when I stumbled on these photographs on the net. A search led me to Varnam’s post from which I learnt that while “Sharada Peeth” was as...
Quote of the week
We have so little trust in the character of the people we elected that most of us wouldn’t invite them into our homes for dinner, let alone leave our children alone in their care...
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