This blog is all about being Indian and the experience that this identity entails. I am in Chennai now and through this blog i shall be discussing issues that are crying for attention in the city. But the perspective and linkages shall be from an Indian perspective.

What do i mean by saying that this is an Indian's blog? This is not exclusionary in nature. I think what I will be able to show is that the people of this amazing country are in most ways similar to people elsewhere and that the diferences are generally in culture which can easily be understood as the people always welcome guests from other lands. I feel that Indians can have perspectives that can vary greatly between regions, so much is the diversity in India.

I feel that this, along with the argumentative tradition that Amartya Sen talks about lends a unique enjoyment to reading the stuff written here. I myself was exposed to various cultures - Bengali, Hindi heartland and Western, the last being in school and college. My school education was really a holistic one, and made me open to all cultures and religions thereby ridding me forever from prejudices based on them. And now when i the modern Hindutva movement trying to project Hinduism in the image of a muscular Ram, i know that is so false.

It is one thing to safeguard your beliefs and quite another to do the same by hurling virulent criticism at other religions. This is like a war propaganda. The Muslims might have moire uneducated classes among them which