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010			_a 2012354237
020			_a9780143417217
020			_a0143417215
082	0	4	_a201.65 _bRAG/G
100	1		_aRaghunathan,V
245	1	0	_aGanesha on the dashboard
260			_aNew Delhi _bPenguin _c2012
300			_axi, 253p. _billustrations ;
520			_aTake 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.
650		0	_aReligion and science
650		0	_aFaith
650		0	_aScience and astrology
700	1		_aEswaran, M. A
942			_cBK
999			_c61674 _d61674