Notes from the Road & A Thought for 2011
Last week, I spent a thought-provoking few hours in an intense discussion with a small group of friends in Delhi. In a fortuitous coincidence, this was the same place where I had a discussion...
Author: B Shantanu
Why equating radical Islam with “Hindutva Terror” is dumb, stupid and dangerous
Sadanand Dhume explains it well. A brief excerpt below (emphasis added): Simply put, the notion that the radical Hindu threat to India is comparable to that posed by radical Islam is ludicrous. First there’s...
Then only will India awake…
From a letter written by Swami Vivekananda to Shrimati Sarala Ghoshal, Editor of “Bharati” (Apr 1897): It was in India that unselfish and disinterested work of the most exalted type was preached but in...
Prof Jagdish Bhagwati on Pankaj Mishra & fiction as non-fiction
Thanks to Sanjay for alerting me to this sharp and insightful speech by Prof Jagdish Bhagwati, titled, “This is how economic reforms have transformed India“, from which these excerpts (emphasis added): …the naysayers, among...
Will you ever see our PM/President like this?
…I mean holding their own umbrella? Image courtesy: TIME Magazine Context: US President Barack Obama tries to speak in a driving rainstorm during Memorial Day observances at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery near Elwood,...
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