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My Friend Sancho
My first novel, My Friend Sancho, is now on the stands across India. It is a contemporary love story set in Mumbai, and was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. To learn more about the book, click here.
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Recent entries
BBC informs us that scientists have now found a way to genetically engineer glowing sperms so they can “track…
My friend Rahul Bhatia has a fine story in Open about Dibakar Banerjee’s experience with the censor board during…
Here’s the WTF headline of the day: Woman co-pilot lands jet solo If that was a man, this wouldn’t…
Via Ta-Nehisi Coates, I came across this beautiful poem named “Dear Augusta,” by Reginald Dwayne Betts. Check it out—and…
Speaking about his new film Shaapit, Vikram Bhatt says: I did some research and a very important fact emerged.…
28 June, 2007
Pratibha Patil on astrology
In my post yesterday, “Why Pratibha Patil should not be president”, I outlined a number of reasons for my opposition to Pratibha Patil. Well, another minor reason emerges—while launching an astrology website last year, the lady had remarked:
Considering the fact that there is so much interest as well as faith in astrology in India, there is need for in-depth study of the possible impact of the recent astronomical findings about the planets. Sometimes we read about 12 planets instead of nine earlier.
Astrology is a serious and deep subject which has a great influence on our society. The growing expectations of the people from this subject requires application of science and technology.
I have no issues with the private beliefs any individual may have, but it does strike me as undesirable for the president of our country to be a superstitious simpleton.
The BJP has asked the UPA to reconsider her candidature, but here’s the irony: If Patil had been a BJP candidate, the UPA and their allies would have been up in arms against her alleged misdeeds—Prakash Karat would have radiated sanctimony—while the BJP would have been supporting her, and the two parties would have accused each other of partisan politics. Frankly, it doesn’t matter which foot the shoe is on: It’s going to trample us no matter what.
(Astrology link via email from Nitin Pai. Previous posts on Pratibha Patil: “Why Pratibha Patil should not be president.” “Wretched.” “The Politics of Division.”
Some earlier posts on superstitious nonsense: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.)
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