Author: B Shantanu

Happy Diwali, ॥ शुभ दीपावली ॥

|| श्री ||   असतो मा सद्गमय | तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय || मृत्योर् मा अमृतं गमय | ॐ शांति शांति शांति || Asato maa Sat gamaya, Tamaso maa Jyotir gamaya Mrityor maa Amritam gamaya,...

Building the Indian Mind – Brick by Brick

I received this email yesterday and could not stop before reading it right through to the end…It is a long read…quite a long read, in fact.  And it is seriously thought-provoking.  Below, excerpts from a speech delivered by...

Where are these missing 30,000?

Courtesy Lokmanch*, the popular Hindi blog, I picked up this worrying bit of information: Between Jan – Jul 2008, almost 30% of Pakistani citizens who travelled to India did not go back after the expiry of...

No longer funny…

A Marathi Manoos’ house is ransacked in Jamshedpur for no other reason except that he belonged to the wrong “state” A 10-year old boy – almost certainly too young to understand what the fuss is...