- Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 22:51
- India
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I've just finished
"The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer prize-winning columnist of New York Times. It is one the most gripping non-fiction books I've read.
It begins with a very feel-good factor of showing how the developing world, mainly India and China are now playing a huge role in manufacturing, services and research and development of numerous multinational companies that were originally ...
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- Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 19:44
- India
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I fail to comprehend the incredibly raving reviews
Amartya Sen's Argumentative Indian has received. Do people just look at the name of the author and write for the dustjacket without reading the contents of the book? Anyway, at last I got the opportunity to read the book and found it extremely boring.
All Amartya Sen has written about is Ashoka, Akbar and anti-Hindutva. It is ...
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- Friday, December 2, 2005, 1:06
- Hindu
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The British invaders of India were an extremely prejudiced lot when it came to India's culture, religion and people. Consequently, they were not very fond of Hinduism, and wrote highly objectionable stuff on the topic.
When they noticed that Indian criminals were as religious as the common people, they were confused. Not only were thieves, robbers etc. religious, but they also offered prayers to their tools ...
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- Thursday, December 1, 2005, 22:45
- India
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The final review of Mike Dash's fascinating book -
Thug: The True Story of India's Murderous Cult.
Thugs were a notorious band of marauding murderous highway robbers that plagued Indian roads between the 1600s and mid 1800s (
Introduction to Thugs). They used to trick wealthy and not-so-wealthy travellers into traveling with them as a group. When the fatal and opportune moment arrived, they killed ...
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- Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 7:17
- India
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I have just finished reading Pradip Bhattacharya's English translation of the Oriya book "Yajnaseni" by the famed writer Pratibha Ray. If women can be educated and modern without losing their cultural identity, then Pratibha Ray sets an excellent example. Yajnaseni won her a Bharatiya Jnanpith award in 1993.
The story of Draupadi, the heroine of the Mahabharata, is set out in Yajnaseni in Draupadi's ...
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- Monday, October 17, 2005, 20:01
- India
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At last, somebody has gathered enough courage to refute Amartya Sen and his recent book, The Argumentative Indian. It is surprising that Amartya Sen has risen to the status of a demigod especially in his home state Bengal, and that his book has been hailed in all the reviews written by Indians that I have seen.
I shall comment on his book after reading it, but ...
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- Thursday, October 6, 2005, 22:46
- India
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Beginning a series of articles on the most vile criminals to have walked the holy lands of India, I am going to take you through history as I read the wonderful Mike Dash -
Thug: The True Story of India's Murderous Cult.
Quite a few people have written about the Indian Thugs, but perhaps it is Mike Dash, to whom the credit for capturing their ...
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