Happy Ganesh Chaturthi!
Today is “Ganesh Chaturthi” – birthday of BhagwAn Shri Ganesh (celebrated on the 4th day of Bhadrapada – usually Aug/Sept in Julian calendar). Ganesh-ji is widely revered as the remover of obstacles (“VidhnhartA”) and is...
Author: B Shantanu
The great joke that is Indian Media – Part VI
A leading cine-artiste makes the claim that being a Muslim, she has had difficulty finding a home in Mumbai. A screen writer says that he too faced the same “problem”. The reporter adds… Top film stars,...
Fixing the “system” – getting down to the nuts and bolts
Regular readers of this blog know that political reform and improvng governance in India is one of my passions…It is also something on which I have been spending an increasing amount of time over the ...
The Myth of a Benevolent “Raj”
I came across this fascinating piece of research a while ago but almost forgot to post it here. From The Colonial Legacy – Myths and Popular Beliefs, some thought-provoking excerpts: *** Excerpts Begin ***...
Uh-Oh!
From a recent issues of TIME Magazine: ..The Centers for Disease Control has been undercounting the number of new HIV cases in the U.S. Revised figures put the number of newly infected Americans at...
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