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… more →
|| Satyameva Jayate ||B Shantanu wrote 1 year ago: Fellow blogger Varnam recently wrote two posts on how learning Sanskrit is now considered to be a … more →
B Shantanu wrote 1 year ago: This is how an otherwise straightforward news-story gets distorted in reporting: From rediff, … more →
B Shantanu wrote 1 year ago: Today is the first day of Chaitra and the beginning of the Hindu New Year for some Hindus*. The day … more →
B Shantanu wrote 1 year ago: Stumbled across this news today: “No love on Valentine’s Day, Sena on a rampage“ … more →
B Shantanu wrote 1 year ago: I finally understood the symbolic significance of this first Hindu festival of the (modern) New Year … more →
B Shantanu wrote 2 years ago: I wrote a follow-up comment on Jo’s blog following my earlier comment which I feel is worth r … more →
B Shantanu wrote 2 years ago: Manoj pointed me to these two links that neatly sum up Pakistan’s schizophrenia with regards I … more →
B Shantanu wrote 2 years ago: Came across this on Varnam’s blog: “Chess originated in Kannauj?” Varnam quotes fr … more →
B Shantanu wrote 3 years ago: An interview that Rachael Kohn did with Sir V S Naipaul in 2001, reproduced below: ***************** … more →