Archive for June, 2010

The Moo-Moo of the Secular Cows

So the secularist damage-dealers have emerged out of the woodwork quicker than I had expected. Jnanpith awardee U.R. Ananthamurthy on Wednesday warned the Bharatiya Janata Party Government that the controversial anti-cow slaughter Bill… The anti-cow slaughter Bill issue is not new. Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddyurappa who had mooted this a few months ago had put [...]

Introducing Prekshaa

An average, devout Hindu knows next to nothing about Hinduism while his Muslim or Christian counterparts know enough to defend their respective faiths. And so the average devout Hindu does one of these two: Feels ashamed and/or scared to admit in public that he is a Hindu Gets extremely defensive instead of using knowledge and [...]

The Hindu Roots of Yoga

Preface One of the more unfortunate but widespread phenomena today with regard to Hinduism is that we now need to produce elaborate evidence for things accepted as evident truths just thirty or forty years ago. In other words, writing defenses instead of doing original, constructive work. Yet the devil must be given its due lest [...]

Be Very Scared of this Census

The biggest exercise after the mother of all shams, the general elections, is underway in our pseudo democracy. The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India proclaims We also count people in India whatever that means. Census typically elicits a “shrug” response among the billion plus citizens of India, majority of whom don’t even know what [...]