Dear Award returnees, who your "ALS ice bucket challenge" is really directed against? Returning awards has become the latest fad in India amongst the creative fraternity. This entire episode reminds me ...
As George Orwell writes in his Masterpiece, 1984, "To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which ...
Nawaz Sharif ’s three-day trip to the U.S. this week was a mega failure. Nobody expected it to be otherwise. The two countries share a strange relationship. After 9/11, Pakistan ...
While it is no one’s claim that politics is as pristine as it used to be , the current level of discourse is nauseating. While no political party in the country ...
The Police in this country is often blamed for all every law and order failure. However, the Indian Police organization’s achievements are invariably neglected. There can be no doubt that the ...
A concerted effort is being made to project India as an intolerant majoritarian state. This is a fairly new phenomenon which began around one year back, after Narendra Modi took over ...
I am no legal expert. But my lay man's knowledge and common sense tells me, something is not right about the striking down of NJAC Act by Supreme Court and favouring ...
In the past couple of decades, India has been rocked by communal disturbances which have claimed the lives of people from different religious communities. While disturbances between religious minorities are not ...
When we speak proudly of a highly successful and prosperous diaspora, the underlying truth of an unfortunate brain-drain in India stares us in the face. Not that the entire phenomenon should ...
‘So, why do they hate Modi so much?’ ‘Who is they’? ‘You know, the media, the academia, assorted fat cats running institutions, writers way past-their-prime, self-professed intellectuals’. ‘Do ...
In India, Secularism or the liberal tag is a much-maligned concept today. Rather than the lofty ethos that those words should represent, ideas that come to our mind are the negative ...
Name: Jayaprakash Narayan Birth Date: October 11, 1902 Death Date: October 8, 1979 Place of Birth: Sitabdiara , Saran District, Bihar, India Place of Death: Patna, India While the story ...
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