Happy Deepavali & Happy New Year
This weekend marks the beginning of Deepavali, the most important festival in Indian Dharma. Like all Indian precepts, the message of Deepavali is universal. It...
Month: October 2010
China Expands Vertically, India Horizontally – Chapter I of “Monsoon” by Robert Kaplan
Last week we promised Readers that we would review “Monsoon” by Robert Kaplan. Then we read the book. We realized we had misled our readers somewhat...
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (October 23 – October 29)
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding o...
Jim Cramer, Erin Burnett, CNBC & General Electric – Their Contribution to Comparative Religion Discourse?
Editor’s Note: This purpose of this article is to explain why we took offense at remarks on CNBC and to lay out our opinion in detail. We contacted CNBC &...
Article by Gurucharan Das in the Wall Street Journal – Glimpse Into How Brainwashed “Elite” Indians Have Become?
Editor’s Note: We have been meaning to write an article for some time about India’s celebrity thinkers, the self-proclaimed elite that seem oblivio...
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (October 16 – October 22)
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Lion-Heart or Lion-DoNothing – Which Attribute Would You Prefer?
From the earliest days of human civilization, poets and writers have extolled the virtues of lions. Magnanimous, Royal, Powerful, generally Quiet but capable of...
Helene Cooper’s Article About USA-Pakistan – Emblematic of America’s Blinders in Af-Pak?
A couple of years ago, we saw a history textbook in the hands of a teenager in a New York City subway. He let us look through his book. To our surprise, we saw ...
Interesting Videoclips of the Week (October 9 – October 15)
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Bin-Ladenism in Religion & The Practice of Yoga
Faith has become a big word. The way Faith is described these days, we feel Osama Bin Laden could be the man with most Faith in the world. He is worth over 100 ...