Apr 9 2008
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I have been doing a little bit of research on miracles. I came across this insight by an eminent physicist Micio Kaku on tis topic. Anything that is not forbidden is mandatory ! To put it another way—Unless there is a law in...
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Apr 5 2008
CRICKET ,JAYALALITHA, MAYAWATI AND MATHS For a nation that discovered the ‘ zero’ and made other significant contributions to the science of mathematics we are notorious for NOT USING even elementary mathematics in our daily lives. The only...
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Apr 5 2008
KHUDA KE LIYE—OPEN YOUR MINDS AND HEARTS TO MUSLIMS ‘Khuda ke liye’ is a remarkable film by any standards. I have not yet seen it but I have received reports about it. It is the first Pakistani film to be shown in India, has won much...
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Apr 3 2008
SOME IDIOTIC INDIANS I am afraid I have been proved right again on a point I would be happy to be proved wrong on . A film critic ADITI NADKARNI wrote on a website[REDIFF] that thanks to bollywood with its big dose of Punjabi words , culture,...
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Apr 2 2008
BOLLYWOoD LOVERS AND AMITABH ADMIRERS AVOID THIS BLOG A friend of mine who has been aspiring to make it big in Bollywood tells me that whenever he meets a producer or director with a script he is asked ‘Show me the Hollywood or Madrassi original...
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Mar 28 2008
BOY MARRIES DOG ‘One-year-old boy married to dog in Orissa This was a news item on the net. The report went on to say as follows ‘ Driven by superstition, the family of a one-year-old boy married him off to a dog to keep him free from diseases...
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Mar 26 2008
HOW MUCH WILL YOU PAY? In many a class room in the US the following question is often asked of white students. Imagine that you are asked before you are born how much money are you willing to pay to be born a white rather than a black. What will be...
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Mar 23 2008
UNHOLY HOLI –COLOURFUL BRUTALITY One can eloquently talk of the quaint and even meaningful origins of many festivals but a more realistic view point will look at the way the festival is now celebrated . By that count Holi would be classified as...
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Mar 22 2008
TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING ISLAM Historian Toynbee wrote ‘The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation’. He said this in another context but I believe this is very relevant now in the...
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Mar 22 2008
YOUNG INDIA WITH A FIRE IN THE BELLY I was at a mall in Arlington near Washington DC with my niece whose family migrated to Australia from India about twenty years ago. My niece had the advantage of a good education of the quality that her parents...
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