“Do you feel safer outside a bar or outside a temple?” – a close “moderate” friend triumphantly asked Neo, while making the ok-maybe-its-not-entirely-true-but-its-still-useful case for religion. Well, certainly Neo can concede that there are some temples that are safer than some bars – but (as anyone who’s visited the Kali temple in Kolkata knows), there [...]

  Image via Wikipedia Two words – mangoes. Actually that’s one word. But who’s counting ? Neo just finished his first Alphonso mango of the season. Quick question – Does a mango need to be disfigured, mixed with oil and asafoetida and humiliated into being part of a mango thokku ? Does a mango need [...]

Being an atheist might be trendy, but its actually more boring than most people think. For the most part, there is nothing to do. Those of Neo’s readers who don’t play cricket know the feeling all too well. Its like the whole world is into cricket, and you are, well just not. Atheism is a [...]