An Endearing Protagonist Whose Life Has to be Pursued
Every story can be dated not just by the year of its publication but by the vintage and identity of its characters and the events described in the narrative. Now, in a time when we mark everything digitally, both ideas and products become dated rather quickly and get morphed to meet one’s fancy and confuse us about the who, when, and where. The question More...
No, Mr. Godrej, You Are Way Out of Line – This Just Won’t Do
A few days ago, Adi Godrej, one of the patriarchs of the well-known and respected Godrej business conglomerate stepped into a minefield when he launched a totally unnecessary salvo on socio-political issues that More...
Moonshot: Why India must take the lead in the final frontier
India’s second unmanned mission to the Moon lifted off on July 22 on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s gigantic GSLV Mark III rocket. With three modules – an orbiter, lander and rover –Chandrayaan 2 More...
Significance of Vrundavanas
In a ghastly act, miscreants have recently vandalized and destroyed the Moola Vrundavana of the great Dvaita Acharya Sri Vyasaraja Tirtha, located at Anegondi near Hampi in Karnataka. As a stark indicator of the More...
A Dangerous Precedent of Judicial Discretion
“…Discretion of a judge is said to be the law of tyrants; it is always unknown; it is different in different men; it is casual and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes More...
Bollywood’s Article 15, or, How to Be Ashamed of Your Country, by Sheer Ignorance
One can summarize Anubhav Sinha’s Article 15, Bollywood’s latest venture in demonizing India, her society and Hinduism by a few crisp phrases: terribly cheesy dialogues, second-rate acting, and cheap leftist More...
Burning Bengal: What Tagore warned about Indian Muslim’s psyche
Rabindranath Tagore played a key role in India’s freedom movement, but he was no ardent nationalist. At heart, he was an internationalist and humanist. To the great poet and Nobel Laureate, humanity was “rich, More...
Europe: European History – A Briefest Overview- II
European colonialism lasted from the 16th to 20th centuries vastly extending their reach around the globe by establishing colonies in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Colonialism was of two types mainly: settler More...
Europe: Bouquets of Flowers on a Bed of Thorns- I
The second fortnight of May when the Sun is at its hottest best, we decided to channelize some hard-earned money for a family Europe tour. We opted for the 12 nights and 13 days tour starting Italy and ending in More...
How Cabinet Ministers and Chief Ministers Violate Their Oath of Office
Worldwide in no other democracy the Constitutional Oath of office administered by the President and the Governors of States is violated with such impunity as it is done in India. Time has come to analyse how and More...