Dr.Anshu’s Blog

Seriously, we Indians take ourselves too seriously. The world ought to move according to our dictat! And if it doesn’t agree with our sensibilities, off with its head! Whither tolerance?
Directing you to some blog posts with interesting opinions on the Dadagiri Indians are now demonstrating a tad too frequently:
Pritish Nandy: The indiscreet art of Dadagiri
Amit […]

Gavaskar scared of Bouncer and Beamer!!!

Published in July 25th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in India, Our life and times, Viewpoint

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Legendary Indian opener Sunil Gavaskar may have made 70s fiery West Indian bowling line up look ordinary, but his former teammate Ravi Shastri has disclosed the little master’s fear for ‘Bouncer and Beamer’.
“For someone who has never been bothered by bouncers and beamers hurled at him by rival fast bowlers, Gavaskar is very scared of […]

Tweezed eyebrows are unreligious?

Published in June 2nd, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Our life and times, Viewpoint

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A young girl was barred admission into an MBBS course at the Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar, a Sikh minority institution, on grounds that she plucked her eyebrows. Endorsing a hardline stand by high priests of Sikhism that she violated a fundamental tenet of the religion by plucking her […]

The globalization of racism and intolerance

Published in June 2nd, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Our life and times, Viewpoint

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Even as the news channels flood us with a surfeit of visuals, telling us about the abominable attacks of Indians in Australia, a new fashionable term ‘racism’ enters our jargon.
Racism is not a recent phenomenon, nor is it confined to one country or region. Racism is a global attitude, which strangely seems to be raising […]

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: A politician indeed, no saint

Published in April 2nd, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Our life and times, Viewpoint

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I have stayed away from this blog for so long, but today’s happenings have made me so so angry that I had to respond.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who is the founder of the ‘Art of Living’ professes to be a modern day humanitarian and spiritual leader. But the real face of the ambitious man behind […]

Who buttbuttinated Abraham Lincoln? : The clbuttic buttumption

Published in February 17th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Web stuff, Our life and times, Viewpoint

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Well, I buttume the breastle of this post will be understood by most of you. After all it is in plain English and is not as difficult to comprehend as our consbreastution. And yes, the profanity filters have ensured that no obscene word has crept through my text and I won’t be embarrbutted later. After […]

Slumdog Millionaire: Does it even deserve an Oscar nomination?

Published in February 5th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in India, Viewpoint, Film reviews

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The script of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire is a much better version of the original book- Vikas Swarup’s Q & A. However for the life of me, I cannot fathom why it is being lauded as Oscar material.
The film revolves around the life of Jamal Malik (Dev Malik), a young lad from the slums of […]

No problem being a kidney donor: Try telling insurance companies that!

Published in February 1st, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Research, Our life and times, Viewpoint

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The latest in research confirms what I knew all along: That a kidney donor is as healthy as the rest of us. A person who has voluntarily donated a kidney lives just as long and are as healthy as others who have a kidney. Their risk of landing up with kidney failure, cancer, high blood […]

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