Next time you play snakes and ladders…
…don’t forget to tell the young ones about its origins! This post has been pending for a very long time in my drafts folder. It was prompted by a statement I read by chance...
Category: Indian Culture, Arts and Music
|| Shubh VijayaDashami ||…and pl spare a thought for Deganga
Happy VijayaDashami, Durgotsab, Durga Pooja, Dasra and Dussehra to all… On this auspicious day, let us pledge to do our best to get rid of the three major evils that plague India – poverty,...
“Mother India and Modern India” – Krishen Kak
I am grateful to Sh Krishen Kak for giving me permission to publish his article titled, “MOTHER INDIA and MODERN INDIA – The Mother Tongues or a National Language?”. The article first appeared in...
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...
Notes from North-East: Weekend Reading
This weekend, please find a selection of articles from the North-East, touching on some of the topics previously discussed here. More “Notes from North-East” next week. Stay tuned. The first extract on Majuli, the...
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