23rd January 1926, Saturday. India was under British rule, Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad had gone incognito. Masterda Surjya Kumar Sen was under imprisonment, while the Kakori Conspiracy trials were ...
Why Jallikattu is inherently Hindu: Vaishnavite tradition is profoundly descriptive about Jalikattu. Tamil Azhvars (Vaishnavite saints and seers) have for long sung about episodes of Krishna taming bulls. The bull and ...
As expected, the pillow fight within the Samajwadi Pariwar was over and Akhilesh Yadav is now projected as the ‘victor’ in the fight. It took no time for Akhilesh to announce ...
Maneka Gandhi, on the 16th of January, penned an article for Firstpost the headline of which read, "Makar Sankranti, much like Bakr Eid, is a day of cruel animal slaughter throughout ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
One of the most obvious effect of Trump's victory has been to boost the morale of nationalist camps around the World and especially in Europe. As Donald Trump takes oath on ...
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 ...
As political parties ran their election campaigns in 2015 to secure a mandate in the Bihar assembly, another campaign was being run simultaneously. The parallel campaign had the opposition parties, several ...
