If Modi is the outsized factor in the 2024 elections, then only nationalism outpaces him as the dominant mood. INDIA’s challenge is to create an alternative nationalism.
As Chandrayaan-3's glory radiates, a peculiar twist unfolds on India's social media — attention is diverted from former ISRO head K Sivan's remarkable feat to his caste.
So far INDIA alliance has focussed on cobbling together some basic arrangements. Next step has to be spelling out why voters should remove Modi & why the Opposition is a better bet.
Greece can be India’s economic gateway to the EU, has the second-largest shipping capacity after China, and needs temporary agricultural labourers. All work in Delhi's favour.
The recent tragedy in Pakistan’s Faisalabad, where mobs burnt churches and Christian homes over blasphemy allegations, cast an agonising spotlight on the plight of minorities in the country.
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.