CNN-IBN Check their polls

An interesting question by bly243001… who is watching the CNN in India ? They have poll that says that India has not let down Taslima Nasreen, by keeping her as a prisoner just because she wrote of of Muslim atrocity in a land where 20% more hindus are cleansed. As far as Bengali anglicized intellectuals [...]

Washington post and spontaneous combustion.

Reading this post brought some old memories… http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2008/02/puke-alert-washington-post-endorsing.html This is about a train carrying pilgrims, returning from Ayodhya. The train had elderly ladies, kids…they were almost near their home cities in gujurat. Few Kilometers from Godhra station, the train stopped, few thousands of people surrounded the train, firebombed the compartments carrying pilgrims, and threw stones [...]

Rajeev Srinivasan

Will Durant was an historian , who has written a history series with 10 really big books. A person with that kind of literature survey might be a giant and famous one in his days, Here is a website http://www.willdurant.com, they may have more info. I had browsed his books in a library….though the first [...]