Category: Current Affairs

W’end Links: Nehru, Yoga, Israel and Caste Census

Start your weekend with these excerpts from a conversation between Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and an IAS probationer, Shri Yuvaraj Karan in 1950, reproduced from the print edition of the monthly magazine “Secularism Combat” (thanks...

One Country, many Worlds..and a forgotten Manipur

As Manipur tries to sleep through the *60th night* of blockade… …girls paint their bodies with World Cup slogans in far-away Moradabad… …the top two “Most Read” news-items on Timesof India’s website are “Bride...

Notes from North-East: Conversion at gun point?

From Buddhists allege NSCN-IM threat (emphasis added): …“The people in Wangnong and nearby villages (in Arunachal Pradesh) have been passing sleepless nights. They are all Buddhists. An armed militant group belonging to the NSCN(IM)...

Doosra* Sanjay Gandhi?

An alert reader sent me this photograph of a poster put up at the Saharanpur rally (29th March) of Varun Gandhi – his first foray into UP post the elections (Thanks to Vandana S...

A Raja, N Radia ‘n a relaxing weekend (NOT)

Dear All: I came across these four links in the last 30 hours – and they made my weekend (not). Together, they read like a sad – very sad – commentary on the state...