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020			_a9780143417217
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100			_aRaghunathan, V. _98056
245			_aGanesha on the dashboard
260			_bPenguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd. _aHaryana _c2012
300			_axi, 253 p.
365			_aINR _b299.00
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			_aReligion and science _91202
650			_aScience and astrology _98860
650			_aFaith _98861
942			_2ddc _cBK