Comrades-in-arms: UPA & Pakistani “militants”
Most of you must have already read about the clumsy handling of the SethuSamudram affidavit by UPA last week. But this particular post on the issue caught my eye. In “The Ramayana, the Sethusamudram...
Category: A Hindu Identity
Don’t wear a “tilak” to work !
aka The joys of living in “Secular India”. Some of you must have already read the “news” from yesterday about the government officer in Bihar who faces suspension for coming to work with a “tilak”...
No more “Christian Yoga”
Came across this story from Simon de Bruxelles in The Times (of London) today (Aug31 ’07): Vicars ban “un-Christian” yoga for toddlers. It appears to “confirm” Yoga’s roots in Hinduism! Excerpts (emphasis mine): “A...
More on origin & usage of the word “Hindu”
A few days ago, I came across this email from Arjuna in which he was responding to an assertion regarding foreign origin of the word “Hindu”. I have written on this before (see e.g. here and more recently,...
Baba Ramdev goes politically correct…
Just came across this news headline quoting Baba Ramdev: ‘Yoga has nothing to do with religion. It is not Hinduism‘ In the rediff.com interview, Baba Ramdev is quoted as saying, “Yoga has nothing to...
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