Ganesha on the dashboard
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TextPublication details: Haryana Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd. 2012 Description: xi, 253 pISBN: 9780143417217Subject(s): Religion and science | Science and astrology | FaithDDC classification: 201.65 Summary: 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 seat belts.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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| 193 NIE Beyond good and evil | 194 CAM Myth of Sisyphus | 201.615 HAI The righteous mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion | 201.65 RAG Ganesha on the dashboard | 204 SIN Surrender experiment: | 204.36 FRA Shiva: the lord of yoga | 204.36 SAD Inner engineering |
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 seat belts.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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