Tagged: India

W’end Links – Politics Special

Start the weekend with this provocative piece by Atany Dey. A brief excerpt from Whistling in the Dark about the Future: Gurcharan Das writes in the Times of India (10th May) that “The Future...

“The Idea of India” – *must read*

I am grateful to Sh Krishen Kak for allowing me to publish this essay by him (in full), first published as THE IDEA OF INDIA by India First Foundation, Nov 2008:127-138.  I would encourage...

If only we were Chinese…

Prompted by this excerpt from Gautam Mukherjee’s Op-Ed in “The Pioneer”, “Assert India’s Hindu identity”: If only we were Chinese, we wouldn’t have a Jammu & Kashmir problem at all. If we were Chinese,...

Slowly but steadily, China marches ahead…

…into Indian territory  🙁 Buried amongst the avalance of news on the web, I found this alarming snippet: …A tiny area in Sikkim has become the latest bone of contention between India and China,...

More on Nano…and blindspots – from Sheshabalaya

Ashutosh Sheshabalaya ,whom I quoted in my earlier post, has followed up with another brilliant piece of writing in The Globalist in which he talks about Nano and India’s impact on the larger global...