Walking with Papa 1 – Trash Talk

Papa and I always have a good time together. We are like two peas in a pod. He is 80 and quite frail but mentally 100% there. One of our favorite things to do is go for a walk in the community. During this 30-60 minute walk we talk absolute nonsense. Don’t get me...

The Enraged Hindu Male

Toxic Hindu masculinity in India is being challenged in many ways these days – by feminism, by homosexuality, by casteism, by non-Hindus. Male chauvinism has never been more insecure than it is today – it is deathly afraid of losing its dominion, its supremacy, its...

Bioterrorism: Ten Facts About Sarin Gas

As the civil war in Syria shows no signs of de-escalating, worrisome evidence points towards the deployment of chemical warfare with banned agents recently, resulting in almost a hundred deaths with more than a quarter of them children. Chlorine and Sarin gas are...