In this excerpt from Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's new book, Why I Am a Hindu, he talks about how the plural expressions of India's many identities is being stifled by its Hindu majority.
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In his past speeches, the man accused of inciting the Bhima-Koregaon violence has hurled choice abuses at Hindus, apart from censuring Muslims, China & Pak.
If two people are chewing tobacco, why does only one of them get cancer? There is some other factor at work here. It is because everything is linked to divinity.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
In that capacious culture which the writer alludes to, the temples of Khajuraho and the underlying esoteric traditions were but a drop in that kaleidoscopic and vast civilization called Aryavarta. Important as they were, in no way could it be argued historically that what these monuments stood for is what animated society at large and informed social mores. To use it as a basis for argument does not advance truth.
What if our forebears were Victorian prudes, not the uninhibited sort we see in Konarak and the Kama Sutra … There is no need to seek validation for the present by turning to the glories of our mythical past. Our children are going up in a globalised world, even Haryana’s chhoris have little use for the diktats of the khaps.
Only If your party and communist parasite backed by your party let Indian learn about pre-Islamic India in School.
Didn’t read the article as don’t belong to Mr Shashi Tharoor’s niche club of admirers who love his twisted arguments and over-the-top intellectualism.
In that capacious culture which the writer alludes to, the temples of Khajuraho and the underlying esoteric traditions were but a drop in that kaleidoscopic and vast civilization called Aryavarta. Important as they were, in no way could it be argued historically that what these monuments stood for is what animated society at large and informed social mores. To use it as a basis for argument does not advance truth.
What if our forebears were Victorian prudes, not the uninhibited sort we see in Konarak and the Kama Sutra … There is no need to seek validation for the present by turning to the glories of our mythical past. Our children are going up in a globalised world, even Haryana’s chhoris have little use for the diktats of the khaps.
The ugly and the unwanted to whom no body cares and love are the real disrupter of Valentine day.