Violence Against Women Endemic in India (1)
4/08/13 •
India needs to improve early education for all children to see improvements in the interactions between young men and women in both urban and rural India. Otherwise, India will be only jumping from one candlelight vigil to the next for rape victims.
In This Issue
Dr. Subra Suresh — Carnegie Mellon University’s New President (0)
4/08/13 •
Carnegie Mellon appoints the first India-Born Dr. Subra Suresh as its President.
Legal Education Loses Gloss (0)
4/08/13 •
The high cost of legal education and the uncertain job prospects have contributed to the loss of gloss for the legal education. But we will continue to be a litigious society.
The Source of Everything (0)
4/08/13 •
Life is a draft of wind — here today, won’t be there tomorrow,
“This is mine, that is mine.” All these will stay, but you will not.
Ram was, and will be here forever! Ram was, and will be here forever!
Traveling by Train in the North East (1)
4/08/13 •
Traveling in train in the northeast brought old memories of train travels in India.
Who is A Corrupt Official in India? (0)
4/08/13 •
Corruption in India is so endemic that nobody complains to the authorities even though they may whine about it in private. Besides, India has perfected corruption such that everybody is simultaneously both a victim and a beneficiary of corruption. When you benefit in one situation, how can you complain when you are the victim in another?
Glimpses from Veerashaiva Vachanas (0)
4/08/13 •
In the history of Reform Movements in matters of faith within the Hindu context, Veerashaivas contribution is significant. The verses of two of Veerashava’s great thinkers — Basava and Allma — are presented here.
Pope Benedict Leaves A Scandal-Ridden Vatican (0)
4/08/13 •
Pope Benedict’s resignation brings to sharp focus the Vatican’s history of covering up scandals involving pedophelia. Behind the homily of “tolerance,” the Vatican hides its dogma of exclusivity in matters of humanity’s spiritual journey.
Friendship of Convenience — A Story from The Mahabharata (2)
4/08/13 •
Panchatantra stories often teach not only about morality, but also tell us how to get out of sticky situations, and how we can use our apparent weakness to our advantage in precarious situations, using deceit and even treachery.
Only in the USA, the Affluent are called “Middle Class” ! (0)
1/01/13 •
If families with $150,000/year household income are “Middle Class,” what do you call families with $70,000/year household income? Lower Middle Class? Remember, the Median Family Income is only $50,000/year.
Is the World Flat or Is the World Getting Flattened? (0)
1/01/13 •
The economic compulsions in the globalized world today are changing the social structure of industrialized nations. In the US the ever-widening gap between the rich and the working poor — a topic that is dissected in countless ways — has far reaching consequences. Is the World Flat as Thomas Friedman says, or Is it getting Flattened?
D. Raja, A Trailblazer for Indian-Americans in Southwestern Pennsylvania (0)
1/01/13 •
There is an old Tamil verse with this meaning: An arrow that just missed to take out a lion is better than the one that pierced the stomach of a jackal. Raja’s arrow aimed at the lion, even though he missed it. We congratulate Raja for trying daring things in public life.
Fundraising Program for Clean Water for the Disadvantaged (0)
1/01/13 •
Jaltarang program raises funds for clean water projects for disadvantages in Asia and Africa.
Partition Stories of Sadat Hassan Manto, India-Pakistan’s Master Story Teller (0)
1/01/13 •
Samar Saha says, “Indians and Pakistanis can jointly give Manto on his 100th birthday a tribute by admitting the reality of the problems he spelled out in his writings on Partition.”
