Dear Rana Ayyub, After reading your recent article praising the ‘bravery’ of Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan for portraying three Muslim characters in back to back movies, I was filled with a ...
Mumbai’s paper tigers are at it again. In their editorial Saamna, the Shiv Sena has issued a veiled threat to its ally the Bhartiya Janata Party. It has stated that those ...
Delhi’s Civic Circus: Cash Crunch, Councilors in Custody and Constraints of Corporation! Lately if anyone would have had the misfortune of travelling into the lanes of east Delhi, chances are they ...
Yesterday, I was woken up with a piece of news titled, “China to seal the border with Pakistan to curb terror”. It further read “the head of Xinjiang government was quoted ...
The Bengali word for Rainbow has been changed. Henceforth, a rainbow in Bengali shall be known as 'Rongdhonu (রংধনু)', instead of Ramdhonu (রামধনু). A decision to change the word was taken ...
Why foreign funds are needed to serve people through NGOs? Reading Rohini Mohan’s OPED piece in New York Times on ‘Narendra Modi’s Crackdown on Civil Society in India’ was an interesting experience. She ...
12 January. What comes in your mind? Is it National Youth Day? Is it the birthday of one of the greatest Indians ever born, Swami Vivekananda? Well, you’re half correct, not ...
Language evolves naturally, while Grammar is always formulated by language scholars, the meaning of words come into existence based on multiple factors which also include cultural and civilizational history of the ...
Nehruvian socialism has always been a concept that believes in the uprooting of social norms, ethics and values in exchange for the economic infiltration of unrelated cultures into a native fabric. ...
On 12 January, 1863, one of the greatest Hindus in recent memory was born. A son of the soil who would take Dharma to the West and become one of its ...
Over a hundred years ago, in a letter to his fellow revolutionary - Motilal Roy, Sri Aurobindo remarked, "The intellect of Bengal has been so much fed on chemical tablets of ...
Napoleon famously said “God fights on the side with the best artillery.” In the Indian context this was proven correct when the FH-77B 155 mm/39-caliber towed howitzer pounded the Pakistanis positions ...
