
If 1 out of a thousand Muslims in India one day decide to jihad against their country, India would be facing a half-dozen times more mujahideen than there are in Syria and Iraq combined.

While the poverty in India is real, begging is quite often a scam carried out by organized gangs.

Because of the continuing problems caused by deforestation I am asking my readers not to print the contents of this article or any other article of mine thereby wasting paper. If you must share my insights and pithy aphorisms I ask that you simply email them to your friends and relatives.

Ian Welsh, contributing to AllVoices asks, "If the US can bomb Pakistan whenever it feels like by using the justification of terrorism, why can't India?"

Pakistanis and Indians are from the same racial stock. They are no different from each other than than the Germans of cold war East and West Germany were. But just as East Germany was a failed state because of its politics - Communism, so too is Pakistan a failed state because of its politics - Islam.

India's national space agency, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) today launched Chandrayaan-1 an unmanned lunar exploration spacecraft.
The mission includes a lunar orbiter as well as an impactor. 'Chandrayaan-1' (in Hindi) roughly translates to 'Mooncraft-1'.

I started blogging in January of 2006; but had I started years earlier I doubt I would have overlooked posting an article about India's most famous actress, Aishwarya Rai who won the Miss World contest in 1994. In 2003 she was voted the most attractive woman of 2003 by HELLO Magazine.

Am I missing something? Whenever I need frozen sperm I simply put my own in the freezer; why steal the cow when you can milk yourself? I know, I mangled the original aphorism.

Our host and future partner in a joint India/US telecommunications venture takes us to the most expensive part of Chennai ($500.00 per square foot just to buy the land) for breakfast. Just to translate that for my readers, that comes out to over a million dollars for a 25' x 80' empty lot. For the average Hindu, if we take his entire annual earnings, this means he can pay for the lot in 370 years provided he gets a mortgage with no interest and he needs no other money to live on.

I Arrived this morning in New Delhi at the Indira Gandhi Airport certain parts of which look as shabby as they did back in 1986, but I should add that it looks like they are finally starting to make improvements and will be completely modernized by 2010.