Oct 2Member-onlyBrooms Dating Back to 2000 BCE? Why Do Indian Towns and Cities Still Use Them to Clean their Streets?Every time I visit India, and my hometown of Bengaluru, the fifteen million plus megalopolis, I am struck by the sight of mostly women, using brooms made of reeds, bending from their torso down, sweeping the city’s streets. …India5 min readIndia5 min read
May 13Member-onlyHere We Go Again: The USCIRF’s Annual “International Religious Freedom” Report, and the Attack on IndiaThe United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), which should have been shut down in 2016, but was infused with funds by the Congress to continue to provide employment to mediocrities and faceless bureaucrats, offers a platform for nine politically compromised commissioners to preen and build their beltway network…Uscirf9 min readUscirf9 min read
Apr 18Member-onlyAmy Waxes Incoherent: It is the Poison in the IviesAh, yes! These days we cannot have even a moment’s respite from the world as we are constantly bombarded with the blathering, bullshitting, bamboozling, or bloviating by someone about something of which and whom they know little about. …12 min read12 min read
Jan 22Member-onlyA Sorry Nation’s Penal Dysfunction: Australia’s Treatment of a Hero AchieverNote: This is a two-part essay — with the first one a response from my son to the Djokovic saga, and the second one is mine. Sudhanva Rao As the Australian Open matches continue to be played and Novak Djokovic has officially left the continent of Australia it is best…Novak Djokovic10 min readNovak Djokovic10 min read
Jun 9, 2021Member-onlyManufacturing Evidence: Journalism in the Age of Social ActivismOn May 24, 2021, Sewa International received an email from Nitish Pahwa, a copy editor at Slate Magazine. He wrote: Hello, I’m Nitish Pahwa, a writer at Slate. I was told to contact this email for the purposes of my inquiry. I’m working on a piece about fundraisers being held…Sewa International12 min readSewa International12 min read
Jun 2, 2021Member-onlyIrony Dies, Hypocrisy Thrives: A Fundamentalist Baptist Becomes Preacher to the SecularistsA fundamentalist Baptist, with a name and a face that could be straight out of a list of “Hitler Youth,” a provocateur who is said to be behind the vandalizing and destruction of a Mahatma Gandhi statue in Davis, California, and a man accused of colluding with Khalistani terrorists went…Bhajan Singh Bhinder6 min readBhajan Singh Bhinder6 min read
May 26, 2021Member-onlyThe Little Engine That Can: A Hindu Faith-based Organization in the US Responds to the COVID Surge in IndiaThey advise us to not let a crisis go to waste just as they point out that it is in crises that leaders emerge, that it is in demanding times that organizations, otherwise off the media radar, can rise to the challenge and prove their real worth. So it is…Sewa International10 min readSewa International10 min read
May 23, 2021Member-onlyHow to Get RID of Hindus: Their PlanThat Hindus have posed a problem for supremacist faiths and extremist ideologies is not acknowledged overtly by the faith followers and the ideologues, but their actions on the ground, their words and messages crafted for use by the media and by academics, clearly do so. …Hindus8 min readHindus8 min read
Mar 24, 2021Member-onlyVedic Knowledge — From Those who Have Sipped and SuppedIt sometimes feels that these days everyone is writing, and everyone is talking — all the time! There are so many books being written, and it does not matter if there is no publisher willing to publish them. The authors can self-publish, and Amazon is willing to sell it to…8 min read8 min read
Jan 2, 2021Member-only“The Bhagavad Gita Comes Alive”Jeffrey Armstrong/Kavindra Rishi (2020). Vancouver, Canada: VASA Publishing. ISBN: 978–0978366148 Everyone wants to quote Thoreau on the Bhagavad Gita — “In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and…Bhagavad Git6 min readBhagavad Git6 min read
