Recently, India has demanded an apology from BBC over its presenter Jeremy Clarkson mocking Indian culture during a Christmas special while driving around the country. According to the news in Guardian, 30.12.11, in the program Clarkson allegedly made controversial comments about India’s trains & toilets. During the program, Clarkson fits a lavatory on the rear [...]
Yesterday, standing in my cubicle in office, I was talking to my colleagues, telling them about a funny instance that happened with me previous night. I had ordered & paid for pizza online. When the pizza boy came with the delivery, I paid him again. He called me around midnight telling me that I had [...]
Well I don’t have answer to this question, but Mani Ratnam‘s flop movie Raavan made this point. The movie was a total disaster. So this is not a review of the movie, enough has been written on this already. Since the movie’s characters are based on the epic Ramayana, it is obvious to compare the [...]
When I was in high school, I was part of a team which participated in the national anthem competition on Independence Day. Team of 3 boys & 2 girls. We practiced for many weeks, just to achieve the perfect timings of 52 seconds. Needless to say that we won the competition, primarily because we had [...]
Ahhh… this is going to be controversial topic. To start with, I m not all against any religion. Religions have been existed since civilizations came into existence, and probably religion/faith was the root and foundation of these civilizations. That was then… thousands of years ago Before Christ (BC), when religion actually played a role in [...]
Varaha, or the Boar Incarnation of Vishnu. Mahdya Pradesh, 9th-10th century. Avatar is a Sanskrit work, which literally means incarnation. Avatar is a very common referenced term in Hinduism, and almost every God has an avatar. For example, Siva has twenty-eight avatars, Vishnu has 10, also referred as Dasavatara (Das = 10), Ganesha has 8, [...]
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