Hindustan Times
The year 2011 saw me at my erratic worst. The biggest reason is that developments in the economics, finance and business space multiplied to levels unforeseen — as the credit crisis continued, Occupy movements gathered momentum and finance suddenly became evil. My preoccupation with matters of money overwhelmed those of religion, which were less volatile. In any case, here are the 10 stories around religion that dominated 2011. Read more
(7 votes, average: 3.43 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Filed under religion · Tagged 2011, Arab Spring, Ayodhya verdict, babri masjid, ban on gita, Bhagwan Gita, credit crisis, Cutting the Edge, Dalai Lama, Egypt, Gautam Chikermane, hindustantimes, Kapil Sibal, Libya, occupy movements, Puttaparthi, Ramdev, Russia, Satya Sai Baba, SM Krishna, Sonia Gandhi, Syria, Tibet, Tunisia
Take a look at this list:
* 2011: Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India by Joseph Lelyveld
* 2008: The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs
* 1989: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
* 1988: The Polyester Prince by Hamish McDonald
* 1984: Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim by Sunanda Datta-Ray Read more
(60 votes, average: 4.42 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Filed under India, Research · Tagged banned books, Bhagwad Gita, Gautam Chikermane, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India, Hamish McDonald, Indian government, Joseph Lelyveld, Midnight's Diaspora, Peter Heehs, Salman Rushdie, Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim, Sunanda Datta-Ray, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, The Polyester Prince, The Satanic Verses
Finally, it looks like excellent packaging to an ongoing scientific quest that began in 1905 with Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and its adjunct, 10 years later, in the form of the general theory of relativity. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Albert Einstein, CERN, Gautam Chikermane, God particle, Higgs boson, hindustantimes, Just Fith, Leon Lederman, National Geographic, Piero Scaruffi, Sri Aurobindo
When Kapil Sibal says that blasphemous material either against religions or people — notably his leader, the Congress president Sonia Gandhi — should be removed from websites and social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter, we know it is the beginning of the end of free speech. Read more
(14 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anand Sharma, Anna Hazare, blasphemy, Censorship, Congress, Facebook, FDI in retail, free speech, Gautam Chikermane, Islam, Kapil Sibal, religious blasphemy, social networking platforms, Sonia Gandhi, Twitter, websites
