Take the way we go about buying a new car. We identify an auspicious date and time, then proceed to break a coconut, plonk a plastic deity of Ganesha on the dashboard, and zoom off at great speed, refusing to wear our seatbelts. Supposedly educated, smart and tech-savvy, Indians can be surprisingly unscientific in their daily lives. Think of the crores spent every year remodelling homes according to vaastu, in the hope of changing luck; and the continued horrors of female infanticide, because it is only the son who can help the father’s journey to heaven… This unsparingly critical, scathingly analytical book points out the shocking lack of scientific temper among the vast majority of Indians, and how this holds us up as a nation in the twenty first century.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR V. Raghunathan
V. Raghunathan was born in Konerirajapuram in Tamil Nadu in the year 1967. He did his studies at different places and graduated in Mathematics from Madras University. He has worked under the able and valuable guidance of Commodore Sukhjinder Singh, Judge Advocate General (Navy) and Smt. Neera Shastri, Member, National Commission for Backward classes. The author is currently working as Research investigator in the National Commission for Backward Class under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, New Delhi. He has actively participated in the research in social anthropology with special reference to Backward Classes. The author is presently engaged in the process of bringing out a Compendium of Orders and O.Ms pertaining to reservational benefits for Backward Classes.
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Ganesha on the Dashboard
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1st ed.
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9780143417217
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xi+253p., Illustrations; 20cm.
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