Of Artists, Expatriates, Faith and India
An excerpt from Vikram Kapur's article "When Society Failed the Artist" today at The Hindu, on the recent...
May the Truth Force Be With You
India's yoga guru, Baba Ramdev, is on a hunger strike starting yesterday, along with 100,000 of his followers...
Indian Bioethical Import/Export
Michael Cook at BioEdge writes that what happens in bioethics in the U.S., Britain, and Australia is worth watching...
City of Life and Death
There wasn’t a dearth of death in Benares; as one walked or drove on its streets, small groups of...
India's Holy Shahs
We've been a giant fan of BibliOdyssey, a site of printed treasures curated by Peacay (or...
The Zeal of the Re-Convert
28 December 2005 There’s an elephant-sized religion story behind this short news item from The Times of India, which...
If You Scapegoat Them, They Will Come (Eventually)
The sleeping giant — err, make that mid-sized man; no, make it “herd of cats” — responds to the...
Daily Links 03 December 2004
Gods of Nationalism Kalyan Singh, leader of the Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), today deposed before theLiberhan Commission, a...
19 September 2004 Daily Links
Doug Grow, of The Minneapolis Star Tribune, reports on the tempest-in-a-teapot in central Minnesota’s Renville County, after Texas-transplant Rick Blauvelt...
19 August 2004 Daily Links
Everyone likes a winner: Bush has been using images of the Iraqi soccer team in his advertising and inserting...
20 July 2004 Daily Links
News of the Weird (press releases): on Sept 12, 2004, in Washington, D.C., the National Council of Churches will...
02 July 2004 Daily Links
“There was a cartoon a few weeks ago, I forget where, and there was a drawing of someone giving...
Cows -- Sacred, Mad, and Bad
Religious fascism is a funny thing. Well, not really, but it is peculiar, especially in India, where to be...