CHARVAKA DESK
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Fraudulent Use of Obsolete Vaastushastra
Book Review: Searching For The Sun In Candle Light…. (Wisdom of Vaastushastra) Arvind Pralhad Pakhale (Translated by Ms Suman Oak) Prabhakar Nanawaty (pkn.ans@gmail.com) As highlighted in the Forward written by Prof. R. V. Kolhatkar, Ex Director of Institute of Architecture and Design, Hyderabad, if one goes to any bookstall on airport, railway station or even…
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Wide-ranging Questions about India: Review of “Exasperating Essays”
Book Review: Exasperating Essays: Exercises in the Dialectical Method D. D. Kosambi Prabhakar Nanawaty (pkn.ans@gmail.com ) “The whole value of Marxism seems to me to be in the absence of dogmatism, mode of approach, and in the attitude to action… The success or failures of the Russian social experiments do not directly affect the validity…
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Baba Ramdev’s anti Corruption Fast: New Face of Communal Politics
Ram Puniyani The police crackdown on people assembled to participate on the anti corruption fast by Baba Ramdev on the Sunday night, 5th June 2011, needs to be condemned to no end. As the police methods are, brutal by there nature, in their effort to evacuate the Ramlila ground, they did resort to the firing of…
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Baba Ramdev: Yogi or Commissar?
Ram Puniyani Ramdev has been probably the most successful of God men of recent times. He claims to have a following of over a billion people. There are an infinite number of people claiming that his yoga therapy and medicines work wonders for their health. Baba in a short span of time has built…
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Ramdev – The Nuttiest Guru!
Ramdev is the nuttiest of yoga gurus we have seen in recent years. Here is a sample of his wisdom retrieved from a recent interview he gave to Tehelka: On Cleansing Corruption If the black money from abroad comes back into the same corrupt system, how will it reach the people? That’s why the…