Micro-post of the day..
..in which the “Prince” reminds us that regardless of who we want to be known as – and what we achieve, we will always be known by our caste, language, religion etc etc. Thanks...
Tagged: Indian Identity
Reading Pavan Varma: “we are not a parvenu civilisation”
Extracts from a thought-provoking interview of Pavan Varma by Kanchan Gupta: (emphasis added): …“Those who have never been colonised can never really know what it does to the psyche of a people. Those who...
An Indian Identity in a Globalizing world
The Sept-Oct ’07 issue of JetScreen (Jet Airways in-flight entertainment guide) had a brief interview with Melody Queen Lata Mangeshkar in which the first question was (emphasis mine): “Question: A graph recorded at the...
Is India now officially “Hindu”?
…Wall Street Journal thinks so. And if the eminent WSJ says so (in a title, no less), it must be true, right? During last weekend, came across this half-baked opinion passing off as a...
Identities and Globalization
In his profile, TIME Magazine’s International Newsmaker of the Year, Shri L N Mittal is quoted as saying, “Whether I’m Indian or the citizen of another country is irrelevant in this global environment”. ...
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