Category: Miscellaneous

Is Behenji India’s most honest politician?

Keeping my reservations on her policies aside for the moment, I salute Behenji for having the courage and the audacity to come clean with her income and getting herself an entry in the Top 20 Income Tax...

At the cutting edge of environmental protection

Some of you may know that cell phone (or mobile) recycling is now a *major* business in the developed world (- playing on people’s sense of guilt of throwing things away which they know may...

Has Sh Nariman really read the Padma Purana?

…or has he relied on some half-baked research presented to him as a backgrounder? I was alerted today to this excellent analysis of “Rama Setu in Padma PurANa” by Sh Sarvesh Tiwari.  I sincerely hope...

Shantanu’s Believe It or Not!* – I

A new series starting today with two news items… “The central government will be sending a package for orphans of the slain militants. Scholarships and pension will be provided to them similar to the...

India – Pakistan: Notes from an Island

About two weeks ago,�the Royal Society of Arts in UK, together with�Tehelka, organised a Summit on India and Pakistan in London. It had a stellar line up of speakers and panelists (Jaswant Singh, Farooq Abduallh, Arun Jaitley, Mushahid Husain,...