Most of us have read or watched the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Imagine Uncle Shakuni having a tiff with Duryodhana just before the Kurukshetra war and joining the Pandava camp. Would ...
When we were kids, we learned an idiom that became one of the major lessons of life. The idiom was- "Where there is a will, there is a way". This is ...
Democracy is an interesting system. It can force the largest party to sit in the opposition while the smaller ones can form the government. This collective government may live for the ...
Einstein defined foolishness as trying the same thing again and again and expecting a different result each time. Indian media’s foolishness is exactly on the same lines. After every speech by ...
The British and the Nepalese fought a bloody war in 1814-16 that resulted in a severe setback for the Nepalese. The treaty of Sugauli signed at the end of the war, ...
A couple of months back, if we were told the cadres of TMC would chant "Jai Shri Ram" on the streets of Kolkata, we would have found it quite difficult to ...
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत । अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥ परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् । धर्मासंस्थापनार्थाय संभवामि युगे युगे ॥ Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata, And ...
Hon'ble Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s remark on holding "simultaneous Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections" has once again kick-started debates. Speaking at a conference on 'Campaign Finance Reforms in India', he ...
One of the everlasting significance of municipal elections in Maharashtra were not the BMC polls. It was Solapur which experienced a political turmoil after nearly four decades. Modi wave now transformed ...
The years preceding independence were the worst for the Hindu population of Bengal. Muslims at 53% outnumbered Hindus at 41%, but the two communities lived cheek by jowl in most areas. ...
या कुन्देन्दुतुषारहारधवला या शुभ्रवस्त्रावृता या वीणावरदण्डमण्डितकरा या श्वेतपद्मासना । या ब्रह्माच्युतशंकरप्रभृतिभिर्देवैः सदा पूजिता सा मां पातु सरस्वति भगवती निःशेषजाड्यापहा ॥१॥ The chanting of this and many such mantras is a common ...
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 ...
