Raj Pritam More’s journey with Khalid Ke Shivaji has a similarity to director Honey Trehan's experience with Satluj. The Marathi filmmaker said he watched the Diljit Dosanjh-starrer and found nothing objectionable in it.
The BJP-led Mahayuti has deployed its culture & tourism departments to put the spotlight on the Marathas. The sword is the latest historical artefact to be reclaimed among others.
‘Bharat’s history is not the history of losing wars but a history of continuous sangharsh’, said Organiser editor Prafulla Ketkar at the launch of Abhas Verma’s new book, Maratha War of Independence, in New Delhi.
Separately, the Centre also plans to launch a special Chhatrapati Shivaji-themed railway tour that will start in Delhi and cover places that prominently feature in Maratha history.
It is very much possible to name infrastructure in a way that promotes historical remembrance, as demonstrated by the common usage of ‘Atal Setu’ or ‘JFK Airport’.
The most suitable place to honour Shivaji would have been Leh. As a regimental icon of the Maratha Light Infantry, his reverence should have been restricted to the unit area or the posts.
In a YouTube video, Jaggi Vasudev had stated Ramdas Swami was Chhatrapati Shivaji's guru. This was deemed as false by NCP's Jitendra Awhad, who called it an 'insult' to Maharashtra.
The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia have exposed a fundamental weakness of the Mecca Pact: its members may share a faith, but they do not necessarily share a threat perception.
India drew a record $127 billion from its vast diaspora, surpassing even the most optimistic estimates and giving policymakers a bigger war chest to defend the currency.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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