One morning in early August 2003,  I stood outside the gate of a popular British-run school in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A Board on the gate warned that it was a Christian school, and that admission was not available to locals.  Because it was a missionary school, I was later told, the government prevented the school from … Continue reading THIS THEORY OF EVOLUTION COULD BE DANGEROUS

I have a social-network friend, whom I shall call Irene since I did not ask her permission to use her real name. She is a dedicated  and proud nurse serving abroad. She tries to help her compatriots find jobs in the country of her employment by reproducing nursing job advertisements on Facebook pages. Quite rightly, … Continue reading MY LAST WAGER ON GOD

When Uma Bharti's Ganga cleaning programme comes into being will they fish him out? Mr. Kashikananda Giri, 90, who died in a regular hospital, not Mr. Ramdev's divine  Patanjali Chikitsalaya, has been interred in River Ganges in a holy packing case. Once again all the dead babas, Anandas, Giris, Maharajs and Swamies can be put into … Continue reading A VEDIC SCHOLAR GOES TO HEAVEN BY THE RIVER