Who are these “11 people”?
Some of you may have read a recent news report in which Union Aviation Minister Shri Praful Patel was quoted as saying: “The men who guard our borders should not have to be frisked. There are...
Category: Politics and Governance in India
Reassessing Mahatma: Did Gandhi-giri really work?
Several weeks ago, I came across this piece by Dr Dipak Basu (Professor in International Economics in Nagasaki University, Japan), examining the role of Satyagraha in the national freedom movement. Until I read the...
Source of “Satyameva Jayate”
In the middle of some idle web-surfing a few days ago, I hit upon the source of “Satyameva Jayate” From Nila-Kantha-Chandra’s blog: “…as I was rapidly scanning the Sanskrit verses of the Mundaka, I...
On Artistic Freedom, Censorship and Responsibility
*** This is a hurried post stolen from a 20-min window at work *** Dear Readers, This has proven to be a great discussion…Unfortunately at times, (I feel) it has bordered on the idealistic...
UPDATED: Is Taslima being treated differently from MF Husain?
From Free Press Journal, via Sify: “M F Hussain spared, but not me: Taslima” (emphasis mine) ….She (Taslima)Â said in her outspoken manner why she was being attacked whereas ‘nothing happened to M F Hussain...
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