Monthly Archives: January 2007

Is it time for regime change in India, for Dr. Manmohan Singh to walk into the sunset? Uncle Sam, ever anxious to rearrange the world with friendly dictators and pliable democrats, seems to have woken up to the grand potential of Mr. Rahul Gandhi, whose scintillating thirty-month-old stint as Amethi … Read More →

There is no taint of untouchability, says Atri, when a person is touched by an untouchable in a temple, during religious processions, sacrifices, festivals, and marriages (verse 249).  Śātātapa avers that there is no dosha (lapse) in touching untouchables on the public road, in a religious procession or in a … Read More →