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The Anti-National Role of RSS
21 November 2016, by Sandeep PandeyThe most despicable action due to the growth of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh’s ideology was the killing of Mahatma Gandhi. If there is one individual with whom people associate India’s identity all over the world it is Gandhi. Gandhi is a (...) -
Artists do not die because the world needs art; Arakkal gave us pleasure by painting pain
21 November 2016, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
It is not for nothing that every Rajnikant movie is released with uproarious publicity brouhaha, from milk abhishekam of oversize portraits to trailers exploding with the hero’s superman feats. Marketing is everything. For film folk, (...) -
Russian Economy: From Recession to Hope of Recovery
21 November 2016by R.G. GIDADHUBLI
As the year 2016 comes to an end, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has reason to feel relieved with signs of economic recovery after persisting recession during the last few years. This is because Russia’s Minister for (...) -
Being a Proud Indian
21 November 2016, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Amidst the profusion of tributes paid to Indira Gandhi on the tenth anniversary of her martyrdom on October 31, perhaps the most eloquent but concise was by the eminent scientist-philosopher, Professor Yash Pal, who said she (...) -
Elusive Cliff
21 November 2016It has been a stiff climb, chiselling steps
both by heart and charter;
yet the cliff still seems eluding.
Today, I see myself in a cage,
scrawled with a tattoo — a stigma to me,
not erased, but paraded by them
to use me as a pawn
in the murky (...) -
Indira Gandhi — Democrat or Dictator?
21 November 2016by P.C. JAIN
November 19 marks Indira Gandhi’s ninetyninth birth anniversary.
Indira Gandhi has been much maligned and misunderstood for imposition of the Emergency and the excesses committed during this period. What to talk of the Right even (...) -
On Religion Today
21 November 2016, by Eduardo FaleiroOver 90 per cent of the world population is affiliated to some religion or the other and for millions of people life would be unthinkable without the guidance of their religion. Religion provides a sense of peace and meaning to life and connects (...) -
Goa BRICS Summit — a New Milestone
21 November 2016, by Arun MohantyWith the Eighth BRICS Summit over at Goa, it is time for stock-taking of the developments at the meet. BRICS is the youngest and fastest growing international grouping that is designed to make the world truly multipolar ending the hegemony of (...) -
Politics as a Confidence Trick
21 November 2016, by Badri RainaThe great English romantic poet of old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, once described the power of imaginative poetry in terms of its ability to cause a “suspension of disbelief” for the moment in favour of poetic truth.
This now seems rather cannily (...) -
Is Partition and Pakistan a Hindu Gift to Jinnah?
21 November 2016COMMUNICATION
Kuldip Nayar’s column captioned, ‘The Partition’ (Mainstream, August 27, 2016), merits our observation. Our leaders, who donned the patriotic kurta, were power hungry. Tired of long struggles and expectation for the bliss of power, (...)
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