Author: B Shantanu

RTI Nation & my first RTI Application in 2012

A few days back, I filed my first application under RTI for 2012. I did this online via RTINation. Considering that RTI Nation is a young start-up, the experience was fairly satisfactory. I will...

On Cow Slaughter etc..

This post has been some time in coming – and I am penning my thoughts on something controversial after a long time. It was prompted by the recent decision of government of MP to...

Might this be the real cause of Muslim “backwardness”?

The question was prompted by these excerpts fom Salil Tripathi‘s “An excuse called Rushdie” (emphasis added): Only one out of every six Muslim children entering an Indian school stays till his matriculation. I use...

In which Sanjeev takes on Narayana Murthy..

A thought-provoking extract from a post on FTI colleague Sanjeev’s blog: I don’t know how this man Narayana Murthy gets the audacity to lecture to others about doing something. For nine years now I...

Impoverishment of India during British Raj

Dear All:  Below, excerpts from a remarkable report from 1908 titled, “Why is England in India at all?“. In this report, written more than a century ago, Jabez Sutherland examines the extent to which the...