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Recent Article from Current Science on Ramayana's Sanjeevani

Kranthikeshvara K — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:40:32 GMT

This could be of interest to you. http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug252009/484.pdf Abstract:This article reports our attempt to explore the possible plants

Re: Why terrorists bite the hand that feeds them

Arun — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:57:14 GMT

India and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sant Bhindranwale case are a pair of cases of the hand bit.

Why terrorists bite the hand that feeds them

jakobderoover — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:27:02 GMT

Dear friends, New Europe - The European Weekly published a piece by us today on the recent attacks in Pakistan (see page 7 of the online pdf-edition that can

Re: The bilingual intellectual in India

Kranthikeshvara K — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:41:43 GMT

Thanks again, Jakob. Ram Guha calls himself a social scientist and in his school of social science, the worth of an idea is apparently proportional to the

Re: The bilingual intellectual in India

jakobderoover — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:39:15 GMT

Dear Kranthikesvara, Guha's piece I didn't find particularly interesting, but the response by Kalyan Raman is. Especially the following passages: 1. "Although

Re: The bilingual intellectual in India

Kranthikeshvara K — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:50:22 GMT

Thanks, Jakob. What did you find interesting about Ram Guha's EPW piece? ... From: jakobderoover Subject:

Re: The bilingual intellectual in India

kanaadaa — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:23:04 GMT

Ooops! That was a long article by Ram Guha, and a little more, just, interesting and profound than reading from a telephone directory. Missing in the entire

The bilingual intellectual in India

jakobderoover — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:29:31 GMT

Dear friends, An interesting discussion is going in Economic and Political Weekly about the decline of the bilingual intellectual in India. In the Files

Re: Indian Secularism

vnr1995 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:36:13 GMT

The book Heathen mentions a couple of similar analogies. 8.1.1 disputes about blackholes 8.1.2 MacIntyre's example There is a fundamental dissimilarity

IRMA 30th Anniversary Conference on Social Science Research and Publ

Kranthikeshvara K — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:39:39 GMT

from https://www.irma.ac.in/institute/institute_30th.php The state of social science research in post-colonial societies is a matter of grave

Re: Newsweek - We are all hindus now

Kranthikeshvara K — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:21:54 GMT

from http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article34090.ece Mr. Obama, as an Indian at the age of 95 who is committed to cosmic peace, I plead

Newsweek - We are all hindus now

indigenous1985 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:36:33 GMT

For whatever it's worth. At least hindu no longer seems like a bad word. http://www.newsweek.com/id/212155

Re: Why is offending an upper-caste person not casteism?

Ravishankar V. — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:47:19 GMT

That the person interviewed is a '*social-scientis*t' whose articles on the unsuitability of Brahmins to live in India or anywhere else :) have been

Re: Why is offending an upper-caste person not casteism?

dunkinjalki — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:46:20 GMT

Hi All, That was a mistake and apologies to Nobel Prize winner Ramakrishnan. However, I stand by my arguments. Best, Dunkin

Heathens and heretics

jakobderoover — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:05:52 GMT

Dear friends, In George Elison's *Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan* (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), I came