BPD, BM, LP: Light at the end of the tunnel?
The dogged persistence in the last few weeks seems to have paid off. By yesterday, I had spoken to four members of Bharat Punarnirman Dal (BPD) and three members of Bharat Uday Mission (BM...
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No national anthem please…we have foreigners here
Just came across this item from yesterday’s Deccan Herald: “National anthem could make foreigners at Infy uneasy: NRN” According to this report, the national anthem was not sung during the visit of President Kalam’s...
The “Talibanisation” of Pakistan…
…is now a REAL possibility. Close on the heels of mention in my last post about the Pakistani moral police, I came across this piece of news in today’s newspapers: “Pakistan minister earns clergy’s...
Dumb and Dumber…
Amidst the controversy surrounding the CBSE textbooks on sex education in India (Karnataka became the latest state to join the ban brigade, following Maharashtra and before that, Kerala, Gujarat and MP), several reports mention the...
Comment on “Religion Without Truth”
In an interesting essay in the New York Times*, Stanley Fish, Professor of Law at Florida International University, discusses whether religion (and specifically Bible) can ever be taught without taking into account the “truth”...
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