Archive of: 2015

The headline that is getting people talking informs us that the world’s first full body transplant – or looked at the other way, the sewing of one person’s head onto another person’s body – could take place in just a couple of years.

This sartorial statement is traditional among warrior groups throughout the sub-continent, most famously the Punjabi Sikhs, who cut neither beard nor hair, keeping the latter neatly trussed up in a turban.

​Let’s have a big round of applause for A.K. Verma, who was until last week an employee of the Indian Central Public Works Department.

American Hindus are feeling proud these days: just before Christmas last year the U.S. Senate confirmed Hindu-American Dr. Vivek Murthy to be the U.S. Surgeon General.