In 'The Great Conciliator', Sanjeev Chopra draws on meticulous research to make a case for reassessing the legacy of India's unassuming second prime minister.
The alliance includes parties and leaders who have been complicit in or have directly supported practices and policies that contradict the very principles that it seems to represent.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's election panel has rejected a complaint by Congress, the largest opposition party, regarding vote counting in recent state elections that dashed its expectations, warning
'Indian Renaissance: The Modi Decade', edited by Aishwarya Pandit, covers a range of social, political, and cultural changes across India during PM Modi's last 10-year rule.
It would be a disservice to the women of Hassan to look at Prajwal Revanna’s alleged abuse of power as a ‘sex scandal’. Allegations against him show what ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ actually means.
The BJP is bringing up a whole new set of MPs, CMs, ministers, MLAs, who will pay a crucial role if and when PM Modi hangs up his boots and there is a battle for succession.
Candidates spending huge sums of money during elections ,try to recover those 'expenses' during their tenure, proliferating corrupt practices, impeding progress and development.
Young boys who should be sweating about schoolwork are learning how to corner women. Are we now supposed to add children to the list of people we need to protect ourselves from?
Armenia has procured significant defence equipment from India, including artillery guns, multi-barrel rocket launchers, air defence system, sniper rifles, weapons locating radars, anti-drone weapons.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
Really well expressed. Unless the intelligentsia in India becomes bold and impartial, willing to pass any thought or view, irrespective of whom it comes from, through crucible tests, they will not be seen as on par with thought processes of the developed world.
Our education system should inculcate this habit of thought and expression among the young from an early age.
Can’t say if I qualify as an intellectual, although my Twitter biodata refers to me as an armchair intellectual, but I ONLY care about facts. Not fiction or fairy tales, which fill up so much of public discourse nowadays.
Finally, a much needed introspection. Intellecyltualisation can also be a gateway escapism to personal and political reality. This happens across the ideologies.
Who are “intellectuals’?! You have put ‘intellectual’ and ‘soros conspiracy theorists’ in the same line! As of now, the ones who blame Nehru and soros for everything hate the word “intellect” and would swear to God that all the problems in the world are due to these ‘intellectuals’ ( I mean apart from Nehru).
Really well expressed. Unless the intelligentsia in India becomes bold and impartial, willing to pass any thought or view, irrespective of whom it comes from, through crucible tests, they will not be seen as on par with thought processes of the developed world.
Our education system should inculcate this habit of thought and expression among the young from an early age.
Can’t say if I qualify as an intellectual, although my Twitter biodata refers to me as an armchair intellectual, but I ONLY care about facts. Not fiction or fairy tales, which fill up so much of public discourse nowadays.
Finally, a much needed introspection. Intellecyltualisation can also be a gateway escapism to personal and political reality. This happens across the ideologies.
Who are “intellectuals’?! You have put ‘intellectual’ and ‘soros conspiracy theorists’ in the same line! As of now, the ones who blame Nehru and soros for everything hate the word “intellect” and would swear to God that all the problems in the world are due to these ‘intellectuals’ ( I mean apart from Nehru).