“Kaatil” by Munshi Premchand
A heart-rending story by that doyen of Hindi/Urdu writing of early 20th century, Munshi Premchand (Thanks to Jagmohan for pointing me to it) Unfortunately, it is in Devanagari script and I am not sure that...
Category: Indian Culture, Arts and Music
Spot the H-word
Thanks to Sh Nachiketa Tiwari for spotting this and Sh Kak for emailing it to me. Although this is a fairly long excerpt from an exchange of emails re. learning Sanskrit, pl. try and read in full. It shows...
The ridiculous extremes of pseudo-secularism
Fellow blogger Varnam recently wrote two posts on how learning Sanskrit is now considered to be a “communal” activity and something that might put you at odds with the “secular” brigade. In the first one,...
The great joke that is Indian media – Part V
This is�how an otherwise straightforward news-story gets distorted in reporting: From rediff, “Do TV serials promote the Hindu way of life?“�� “…The Afghanistan government has banned Indian television serials because they feel it wrongly...
Happy New Year !!
Today is the first day of Chaitra and the beginning of the Hindu New Year for some Hindus*. The day has a special significance for me (in my personal life) because of an event...
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