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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Almost all modern Indologists, all modern Indian education, all modern Indian religion is looked upon from an explicitly and unabashedly Semitic or Abrahamic point of view, arising from the Colonial superstructure ...
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 ...
Why everyone says the route to Delhi is through Uttar Pradesh? Perhaps the state resembles the character of entire India in one state. In this state seeking Muslim votes is a ...
Some call it as Sankranti or Sankranthi, some call it as Bihu, some others call it as Sankraman, and in Tamil Nadu, they call it as Pongal. All in all, the ...
In the aftermath of Brexit and Trump’s victory, the future of the European Union looks increasingly shaky each day. With popular anger rising among Europeans owing to continuing economic slowdown and ...
Better to have a known enemy than a friend who is not trustworthy and is unreliable. This truth summarizes the current relationship between NDA allies BJP and Shivsena. The two parties have ...
A false narrative that has become a part of the political mainstream is that Bengal, unlike other parts of the country, had always been secular and that even after partition, both ...
