Open Thread on Ayodhya…
Dear All: Ahead of the judgement, opening this thread on Ayodhya with this piece of breaking news (unverified): Indian high court rules that key piece of land disputed by Hindus and Muslims goes in...
Author: B Shantanu
What is stopping you from joining active politics?
Some of you would remember NDTV’s “Big Fight” from a few weeks back where the topic was “Younger politicians -Â time to take over“. I had taken some notes while watching the programme and what...
Who was the real “Ashoka the Great”?
To those of us whose image of “Samraat” Ashoka (Ashoka the Great) has been shaped by Amar Chitra Katha or the eponymous movie, it will come as a suprise that there may actually have...
“Samay” hout balwaan
How many of you have heard the story of great warrior Arjun suffering an ignominious defeat at the hands of a gang of marauders*? I had a vague recollection of it but when someone...
Our Kurukshetra is approaching fast
For many of us, the government’s craven capitulation on the Amarnath issue was less of a surprise and more of a denouement of something we had feared all along…i.e. our political leadership can no...
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