Courtesy Atanu , I stumbled on this 1962 TIME Magazine story on the Indo-Chinese War of 1962. Excerpts below.
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…After a series of smashing victories in the border war with India, Chinese troops swept down from the towering Himalayas and were poised at the edge of the fertile plains of Assam, whose jute and tea plantations account for one-fourth of India’s export trade. Then, with Assam lying defenseless before her conquering army, Red China suddenly called a halt to the fighting.
Radio Peking announced that, “on its …

This is a very sad story. I first heard of this courtesy BarbarIndian and it shook me to the core. Here is a news-article from almost 8 years back, 18th Oct 2001 to be precise, headlined:
“Archana case: The longest legal battle“.
…The violent waves of the naxalite movement were gradually dying down and “special cell” of the city police were busy executing the mandate of uprooting this ultra-left movement, the chief target of state repression, by hook or by crook. But, never in their dreams, did these police officers think that …

Thanks to Sanjay for pointing me in the direction of this wonderful website.
Practical Sanskrit: Simple Sanskrit, Great Ideas
It is an effort by fellow-blogger Shashi Joshi.
Well done, Shashi…and thank you on behalf of all lovers of Sanskrit.
Related:
The ridiculous extremes of pseudo-secularism
Is no one thinking about our classical languages?
Also read:
Left sees Red over Sanskrit (Sandeep’s Op-Ed in The Pioneer)
and the online daily Sanskrit news paper “Sudharma”

Some of you might remember a poll on this blog from six months ago on “What should be India’s top developmental priority?“.
There were a number of choices I had offered, namely:

Access to good quality education for all?

Access to basic healthcare for all (I will include clean drinking water in this)?

Focus on the Girl Child (including her education and obviously, health)?

Other answer…

I was reminded of this poll again last week while reading something else and decided to revisit some of the issues that were thrown up in the comments section.
At the …

The July issue of “Towards a Great India” is now online.
It contains reports and first-hand impressions of the Indore outreach initiative, in addition to an article on School Vouchers by Sanjeev and another by LK on “Why are Capitalists a hated lot?”
Do read it and do consider joining the effort.
Related Posts:
Quick Notes from Indore – Part II
Changing India – Step III

Some excerpts from Dr. Subramanian Swamy’s valedictory speech on January 11 at the International Conference on Indian History, Civilisation and Geopolitics 2009 (ICIH-2009) at New Delhi’s India International Centre, titled, “Defalsify India’s history as a first step in national renaissance“. It contains a very interesting account of how some critical dates  – based on which ancient Indian History has been re-constructed – may themselves be inaccurate and wrong. Read on.
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Introduction
…Hindustan represents the continuing history of culture of Hindus. One’s religion may change, but culture does not. Thus, …