Study examined DNA of skeletons found in Rakhigarhi, an Indus Valley Civilisation site in Haryana, and found no traces of R1a1, or Central Asian ‘steppe’, gene.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
“For example, when Modi speaks, one-on-one, with Russian President Vladimir Putin, both know it can’t be Hindi or Russian, so they better make do with English.”
This is the most inane statement in an inane article. world leaders are perfectly capable of speaking through translators – that is what they usually do.
Note also that Imran Khan will be perfectly intelligible in vast swaths of North India whereas Shah will need an interpreter in a south Indian village. For India to talk of unity via language is very dangerous to say the least.
Read a fine column by Shri Sharat Sabharwal, former envoy to Pakistan, in IE. Strengthens one’s initial belief that these constitutional changes do not translate into anything worthwhile, either internally with the good people of Kashmir, or extetnally with Pakistan. A leap of faith to believe that a new, more cordial and trusting relationship can be forged with Kashmiris once they realise that no substantive political change in their status is possible. 2. One vacuum that does not seem to have been thought through is about who will lead the politics of Kashmir. Given the always ambivalent attitude of Kashmiris towards India, the mainstream politicians, Dr Farooq Abdullah the tallest amongst them, have had to play a tricky balancing role. Difficult to see how an alternative leadership can be manufactured in a laboratory. 3. If things are not following a preset glide path, if improvisation is still going on, the aspect of UT merits reconsideration. Restoring statehood would be a meaningful act of outreach.
Without English, the successful Indian diaspora would not exist. Highly educated, many in the learned professions, citizens of the world. The real sense of inferiority is not towards Hindi but English. Language is only one part of the equation. The entire world view, approach to science and modernity, there is the cosmopolitanism of Khan Market versus the insularity of the Vedas. India would prosper if we did not accentuate this faultline so much.
Heart, is one of importen organ in human !
“For example, when Modi speaks, one-on-one, with Russian President Vladimir Putin, both know it can’t be Hindi or Russian, so they better make do with English.”
This is the most inane statement in an inane article. world leaders are perfectly capable of speaking through translators – that is what they usually do.
Note also that Imran Khan will be perfectly intelligible in vast swaths of North India whereas Shah will need an interpreter in a south Indian village. For India to talk of unity via language is very dangerous to say the least.
Do the Hindiwalas realise the clout Indians enjoy in America is because of English language .
Read a fine column by Shri Sharat Sabharwal, former envoy to Pakistan, in IE. Strengthens one’s initial belief that these constitutional changes do not translate into anything worthwhile, either internally with the good people of Kashmir, or extetnally with Pakistan. A leap of faith to believe that a new, more cordial and trusting relationship can be forged with Kashmiris once they realise that no substantive political change in their status is possible. 2. One vacuum that does not seem to have been thought through is about who will lead the politics of Kashmir. Given the always ambivalent attitude of Kashmiris towards India, the mainstream politicians, Dr Farooq Abdullah the tallest amongst them, have had to play a tricky balancing role. Difficult to see how an alternative leadership can be manufactured in a laboratory. 3. If things are not following a preset glide path, if improvisation is still going on, the aspect of UT merits reconsideration. Restoring statehood would be a meaningful act of outreach.
Without English, the successful Indian diaspora would not exist. Highly educated, many in the learned professions, citizens of the world. The real sense of inferiority is not towards Hindi but English. Language is only one part of the equation. The entire world view, approach to science and modernity, there is the cosmopolitanism of Khan Market versus the insularity of the Vedas. India would prosper if we did not accentuate this faultline so much.