http://english.sarathi.info Let Us Rebuild India Through Sharing of Ideas, Debates, and Discussion !! Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:14:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Voter apathy is something to be lamented about. However, the quick-fix solutions that politicians and people offer for national (and also for the not the larger) problems is to be lamented even more. It seems that idiocy is at a premium when it comes to solving problems that affect the ... http://english.sarathi.info/?p=44 I have met numerous crusaders, reformers, and visionaries. I have seen them toiling all their lives, sacrificing all what they have. Yet, to my regret, I have seen many of them failing in their mission. How is it that so many good, sincere, and committed men ... http://english.sarathi.info/?p=43 Since the time the Honorable Indian Court struck down the antuquated law that criminalized homosexuality, there has been much enthusiasm, merry-making, and talk on this subject in India. Picture: A shot from the American Homosexual Parade of 2009 Sexual attraction between people of the opposite ... http://english.sarathi.info/?p=39 India is known to many people outside the country as a nation of snake charmers. But very few of them know that India is one of the most dangerous places for snakes. The other day my daughter and I spotted a small snake, about 18 inches long, ... http://english.sarathi.info/?p=37 Five rupees is nothing for most of my readers. Not even if I ask them for 5 rupees a day -- for the sake of a healthy India, because if India is healthy, all of us are blessed. Just by Potassium permanganate worth Rs. 50, divide into ... http://english.sarathi.info/?p=31 Blogging is one of those Disruptive Technologies that can transform society – or at least a part of it. Since aim of Sarathi is transformation of India, I would encourage bloggers and potential bloggers to pick up areas and topics that can bring this about. One of these areas ... http://english.sarathi.info/?p=29 The word Blog, and particularly Weblog, conjures up images of personal diaries in the minds of old timers. [Photograph: the author with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope. Based upon the principles of quantum physics, the equivalent optical magnification of this machine exceeds 200,000X. It us used to study ... http://english.sarathi.info/?p=25 Picture: World’s Largest Silver Pot The India of my childhood (the 1950s) was a poor India. Money was scarce, food was scarce, and good cloths were a luxury. Thus it was easy for me to believe the false propaganda that India has always been a poor nation ... http://english.sarathi.info/?p=22 A theme repeatedly found among many Anglophiles is that India was totally illiterate and intellectually defunct when the British came to rule us, and that it is they who brought light to India. A slogan repeated often transforms into a “fact” in the unconscious mind of the listeners. ... http://english.sarathi.info/?p=17 When there is a fire, most people pour water on the top of it. Experienced people direct the jet to the root of the fire -- the place were the inflammable material really is. Only a few people in any given society at any given time recognize ... http://english.sarathi.info/?p=5