BJP has drilled into public consciousness that JNU is ‘anti-national’ and filled with ‘Afzal sympathisers’. The violence on campus hijacked headlines this time too.
In 1976, Modi addressed India's youth in a letter: Today’s unemployment, immorality, corruption, and oppression will harass you tomorrow. So why are you silent?
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has hinted at reopening Judge Loya case. But one misstep and the move will boomerang – politically and legally.
Tehran’s responses to the incident was similar to that of Moscow’s after Cherbnobyl — denial, grudging acknowledgment and an apology. But Ali Khamenei is not Mikhail Gorbachev.
Advanced nations have welfare states and are unlikely to abandon them any time soon. Instead, it seems likely that many will try to shut the gates to foreigners.
The Indian example has always been a sense of wonder: a post-colonial country that was able to sustain democracy, avoid military rule, and protect its territory with little social strife.
On 26 June 1966, Indira Gandhi delivered a speech at the Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University in Mumbai, outlining the tasks before Indian women.
This is the transcript of Ep 1830 of Cut the Clutter, where Shekhar Gupta explains why strategic petroleum reserves are a national necessity & how India compares with China, US & Japan.
Tracked and wheeled variants, built in collaboration with Tata Advanced Systems and Bharat Forge, carry 30mm turrets, cross water using hydro jets, and are 65% indigenous.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
A victory is not real if others are not convinced about it, and the defeated still stands to mock and challenge the victor.
A real defeat is inevitable next if the victor is solely convinced by such victory, and they then merely scold others for their disbelief.
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The above is not hoary observation made by Thucydides. It is common street wisdom that every dweller knows for sure not to disregard.
No matter, such is our enslavement by a Godman’s industrial cult that empty sycophants smugly talk down to us, and tell us what we should be thinking and feeling about the otherwise starkly and unavoidably obvious.
We are a project. There is much transformation they wish us to yet undergo. Our mere obedience so far does not suffice now.
The author’s article is a long hymn on the dazzling, divine qualities of a speech which can’t be imagined by ordinary minds. For conformity, what we are now required to attain is rapturous surrender. It is a rare state of intense, blind enthrallment only which can raise us to high “sadharanikaran—a concept that goes beyond mere transmission of information to establish a shared understanding between the communicator and the audience.”
We are to become gopis who are ever-immersed in pining worship of their absent and indifferent lord.
How did we, an intelligent people who have endured and survived much with dignity, meekly allow this to happen to us? I feel burning shame when I think of the dishonour and disservice we do to ourselves and our ancestors by our negligence towards duty, ethics, and current realities.
A victory is not real if others are not convinced about it, and the defeated still stands to mock and challenge the victor.
A real defeat is inevitable next if the victor is solely convinced by such victory, and they then merely scold others for their disbelief.
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The above is not hoary observation made by Thucydides. It is common street wisdom that every dweller knows for sure not to disregard.
No matter, such is our enslavement by a Godman’s industrial cult that empty sycophants smugly talk down to us, and tell us what we should be thinking and feeling about the otherwise starkly and unavoidably obvious.
We are a project. There is much transformation they wish us to yet undergo. Our mere obedience so far does not suffice now.
The author’s article is a long hymn on the dazzling, divine qualities of a speech which can’t be imagined by ordinary minds. For conformity, what we are now required to attain is rapturous surrender. It is a rare state of intense, blind enthrallment only which can raise us to high “sadharanikaran—a concept that goes beyond mere transmission of information to establish a shared understanding between the communicator and the audience.”
We are to become gopis who are ever-immersed in pining worship of their absent and indifferent lord.
How did we, an intelligent people who have endured and survived much with dignity, meekly allow this to happen to us? I feel burning shame when I think of the dishonour and disservice we do to ourselves and our ancestors by our negligence towards duty, ethics, and current realities.