Tag Archives: india

Alexander the Humbled

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Think back to Ancient India as described by the Greek philosophers Megasthenes and Arrian, summarized by Kevin Carmody on his site.
The fact that these interchanges between Greece and India have been recorded and passed down through history is incredible — even more incredible that the Greek writings show deference to the wisdom of a foreign culture! [...]

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The task that faces us

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Hinduism has always been a geographic faith, tied to South Asia, much like Judaism is tied to the Middle East. When a faith goes abroad, away from its geography of origin, it remains firm in some aspects, and bends in others — we see this in the Jewish Diaspora. But because Hinduism is such a massive [...]

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Today’s bombings in Mumbai

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The bombings and gunfire in Mumbai today (reuters, cnn) make me thankful for my comfortable, secure chair here at home.
Upon hearing the news, I felt two things:

I am going to change this. Idealism swept through me for a few seconds, and subsided.
What is wrong with our country? My family is from India, so this news [...]

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