Raghunathan, V. <br/><br/>
Ganesha on the dashboard 

 - Haryana  Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd.  2012 
 - xi, 253 p. 
<br/><br/> 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.<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780143417217 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religion and science<br/>Science and astrology<br/>Faith
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>201.65  / RAG