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How Nitish Kumar is keeping BJP confused?

When Prime Minister Modi announced demonetisation on television, it set cat amongst the pigeons in form of an already fragmented opposition parties who seemed to be fluttering with the advent of ...

Cinema

Composer Amaal Mallik’s epic takedown on Filmfare nominations

Amaal Mallik comes from one of the most renowned musical families of Bollywood. He is the grandson of Sardar Malik; son of Daboo Malik, brother of singer Armaan Malik and nephew ...

Shahrukh is playing Muslim characters to prove a point, claims Rana Ayyub

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 ...

BMC Elections: Paranoia grips Shiv Sena as BJP looks to go solo this time

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 ...

East Delhi is practically Unlivable, thank you Arvind Kejriwal

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 ...

Ramdhonu to Rongdhonu is not a small change, it is a part of a bigger plan

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 ...

13 January 2017

Civil Society in India is the most Uncivil Society in India

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 ...

13 January 2017

History

The untold story of Masterda Surjya Kumar Sen

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 ...

You live in a Mughal-British Hybrid state, just that you don’t know about it?

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. ...

Culture

How Ramakrishna Mission betrayed Swami Vivekanda and Hindus?

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 ...

Culture

Is Devdutt Pattanaik really a scholar or an overrated Pop-Mythologist?

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 ...