Quote of the week: “We are, what we know…”
Dr Prodosh Aich, in “Lies with Long Legs*” (Ch 1, Pg 51): We are, what we know. And we only know what we have been told. Past Quotes and Thoughts for the Week are...
Author: B Shantanu
If its not on Google…Was the Emergency for real?
Thanks to Vikram for alerting me to this. Below, a shocking excerpt from a recent piece by Kuldip Nayar, “The shame of misrule” (emphasis added): …Typical of Congress’ furtive ways to cover up its...
The real story behind “Adarsh”
Excerpts from “The media has misled us on the Adarsh scam” by Carl H. Gomes, courtesy VigilOnline: The “housing for widows of the “martyrs” of Kargil” is a media creation because the scheme was...
On neo-feudalism, Baba-log and dynasty politics
This post was prompted by Tavleen Singh’s recent article in the Indian Express titled, “We live in neo-feudal times“. In the article she wrote (emphasis added): Handing parliamentary constituencies down in the family is...
So it was not about “Kashmiriyat”?
The majority of our people are Muslims. How can we not talk of Islam? I can’t help wondering – what happened to the famed “Kashmiriyat”? Source: Interview of Syed Ali Shah Geelani by Kaveree...
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