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May 2003
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Prozelytization and Secularism
In the article, Proselytization In India: An Indian Christian’s Perspective, C.Alex Alexander does a brilliant job in putting forwards a message for secularism in the Indian Context.
In my opinion, most Christians born and raised in India’s diverse milieu are innately liberal and pluralistic in their outlook. Therefore, they should now raise their voices against the [...]
Tejo Mahalaya?
I have received this forwarded email quite a few times now. Normally I would read and then press the delete button, but I did a google search on this one. The content of the forward is as follows.
The Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal built the [...]
Kahani mein twist
Few days back a Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam leader was hacked to death. I was wondering if amma’s party would be responsible, but todays news tells me that there’s Kahani mein twist. To explain Tamilnadu politics, I need to understand it first. Forget it, I give up.
Malayalam Devdas : A funny link from Times of [...]
Express to nowhere
The rawalpindi (directionless) express tampers with ball again. This time its a 2 match ban.
Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been banned for two matches for ball-tampering. He was spotted apparently scratching the quarter seam of the ball on close-up television by third umpire Gamini Silva.
I have always considered Shoaib Akhtar a chucker. [...]
Defence minister
Maybe we have got a good defence minister.
New Delhi May 20. The Defence Minister, George Fernandes, is all set to mark another first for a Defence Minister by spending a night underwater in a submarine.
Mr. Fernandes will stay onboard the Indian Navy killer class submarine INS Sindhuveer during his visit to the Eastern Naval [...]
Scary
After reading Varsha Bhosle’s article, I was feeling uncomfortable. I knew that whatever she had written, made sense, and that made me even more uncomfortable. A quick search on the internet provided the link to Nathuram Godse’s defense in court, for the charge of assassination of Gandhi. The history we have learnt [...]
Confusion
How do people find time to blog regularly, after spending long time at work, then travelling, reading, surfing. I havent been able to even log on to my mt for some time now. Discipline, maybe thats whats needed. But then thoughts which are not fully formed, do they need to be expressed. [...]