Saluting our Heroes: Maj Shaitan Singh, PVC
From the Indian Army website: The Param Vir Chakra is awarded for most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self sacrifice, in the presence of the enemy, whether on...
Monthly Archive: November 2009
Secular Harit Desh – Guest post by Sanjay
Thanks to Sanjay for woving this guest post around a recent column by M J Akbar that left me aghast. *** “Secular Harit Desh” by Sanjay *** MJ Akbar, the celebrity journalist, editor (Sunday...
Will Shabana Azmi please speak up?
Thanks to Sh Krishen Kak for alerting me to this extraordinary report of how Muslim women are being denied their freedoms…and the right to development by their own. Excerpts from Swaminathan S Aiyar’s Anjumans...
W’end Links: “Maccha Yantra”, Amarnath & The Purpose of History
Start this weekend reading about “Maccha Yantra” – which might have been the precursor to the mariner’s compass of today… Next, read former Governor of J&K, Jagmohan’s account of his trek to Amarnath… …and...
Who are these “Christian Converts”?
Thanks to Sh KSV Subramanian for alerting me to this. In a comment yesterday, he asked: Kerala government has announced writing off loans upto Rs.25,000 to converted Christians. Is this not discrimination on the...
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