In 'Muslim Women Speak: Of Dreams and Shackles', activist-scholar Jamil tries to find these women's real voices, instead of just presenting them as victims.
In Everyday Communalism: Riots in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh, authors Sudha Pai and Sajjan Kumar make a serious attempt to understand the contemporary form of communal politics in India.
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Comment:Military officers carry out their duties amidst great strife and fog.Often what they do is covered by veil of official secrecy.Time passes and events loose immediacy.Few can recollect the vividness of long gone events. .Its a magnificent memoir by a very fine general that covers long decades of the Indian army.In doing so we can see the story of the army itself unfolding over the decades.But one thing is sure,none of us born in the previous century had imagined the omniscient power of social media or rather the mike being in everybodies hand now.To all those who recognize erudition and duty performed to high zenith,these memoirs will be very fulfilling and ironical to read.
Comment:The book is a wonderful memoir and of permanent value to all armed forces officers,who have to face challenges of mind boggling variety in doing their duty to their country.I hope that the religion or caste or province in which one is born shall never be of any consideration to these citizen soldiers. Its the best memoir from a military officers pen in the last couple of decades.
The writer has not mentioned the need for religious reforms. Blasphemy is a curse and must be eradicated. People should be encouraged to have faith in minimum 2 religions. Why should a person have faith only the religion of the family where she was born?
How is that even relevant to the subject matter? Questions of faith are matters of personal choice, a person can have one, many or none.
The article is not about religious reform. There is no blasphemy recognized under law in this country, unless you are from Pakistan. Hurting religious sentiments is criminalised as a matter of public policy due to the general tendency to riot in case people feel their gods’ been slighted. Why should people be encouraged to have more than two religions? What rationale is there to it? People can choose their religion, but unless they make a choice they are presumed to belong to the one they are born in and raised as.
Comment:Military officers carry out their duties amidst great strife and fog.Often what they do is covered by veil of official secrecy.Time passes and events loose immediacy.Few can recollect the vividness of long gone events. .Its a magnificent memoir by a very fine general that covers long decades of the Indian army.In doing so we can see the story of the army itself unfolding over the decades.But one thing is sure,none of us born in the previous century had imagined the omniscient power of social media or rather the mike being in everybodies hand now.To all those who recognize erudition and duty performed to high zenith,these memoirs will be very fulfilling and ironical to read.
Comment:The book is a wonderful memoir and of permanent value to all armed forces officers,who have to face challenges of mind boggling variety in doing their duty to their country.I hope that the religion or caste or province in which one is born shall never be of any consideration to these citizen soldiers. Its the best memoir from a military officers pen in the last couple of decades.
The writer has not mentioned the need for religious reforms. Blasphemy is a curse and must be eradicated. People should be encouraged to have faith in minimum 2 religions. Why should a person have faith only the religion of the family where she was born?
How is that even relevant to the subject matter? Questions of faith are matters of personal choice, a person can have one, many or none.
The article is not about religious reform. There is no blasphemy recognized under law in this country, unless you are from Pakistan. Hurting religious sentiments is criminalised as a matter of public policy due to the general tendency to riot in case people feel their gods’ been slighted. Why should people be encouraged to have more than two religions? What rationale is there to it? People can choose their religion, but unless they make a choice they are presumed to belong to the one they are born in and raised as.