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 oblivious to the realities of India and the world. In our opinion, the article by Gurucharan Das in the Wall Street Journal reflects the mindset of this group. We examine the views expressed by…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series of…
From the earliest days of human civilization, poets and writers have extolled the virtues of lions. Magnanimous, Royal, Powerful, generally Quiet but capable of Fury and Destructive Carnage, the Lion has always been an object of admiration. This has been especially true of Indo-European cultures. Indra was the Lord Protector of Heaven in the Sindhu culture that…
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 a detailed multi-page description of the Maurya Empire from Chandra-Gupt Maurya to the Great Ashok, one of the greatest emperors in…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series of…
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 million dollars and yet he has thrown that away to live in caves to carry on his struggle. Who can demonstrate a…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series of…
Editor’s Note: Either in this article or in our article of last week , we do not mean to suggest that Columbia, MIT & Princeton are the only Universities that impose the insulting TOEFL requirement on Ph.D.s, Master’s degree recipients from other Universities. We suspect many other Universities follow their lead and example. When we…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series of…
There is an old saying that the darkest part of a lit room is underneath a bright lamp. An application of this proverb is the ironic but true fact that the most respected institutions sometimes establish the worst discriminatory practices. In this article, we present our views about some famous American Universities. These institutions are…