Hong Kong is India’s biggest gems & jewellery market and shipments have declined 6.6% from a year earlier to $3.2 billion in the first four months FY20.
Manufacturing imitation beads became a widespread practice, with rare or exotic jewellery items copied in shape and colour in various prehistoric cultures.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
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.
Is there a problem if Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray ‘turns or is turning secular’?
The word SECULAR is special and should be used only by a select few.
Thank God the Raj Bhavan has not followed in the foot steps of the Bhuta Singh and Romesh Bhandari.
So long as the India of 2020 does, that would be wonderful. On a lighter note, those who are not secular should be sent to Pakistan.
Its only wonderful for perpetuating a Farce of pseudo secularism – a nonsense that is utterly meaningless and distorts the intent of the Constitution.
People who arrogantly and ludicrously assume Ambedkar made an oversight are not just uneducated about the Constitution but Indian society. Pluralism and secularism are distinct and apart as anyone educated would know .
Those championing the logic of foisting “secularism” on India, should explain how reservations focused on one religion would stand the Constitutional guarantee of state “secularism”. The word secular predates India – its definition cannot be twisted for the convenience of the poorly educated or the politically inept.
Secularism is a fraud and a lie in our constitution. Inserting the word during the emergency does not legitimize it. We have a farcical constitution that claims to be secular but is filled with articles that discriminate based on religion.
Good column by Shri Vir Sanghvi in HT, in which he traces the evolution of this story from the ban on Satanic Verses. However, I would draw a distinction. Saving lives is important. If Charlie Hebdo cartoons contain something deeply offensive to the Islamic faith, I would value human life over the abstract concept of freedom of expression. However, this was a perfectly sweet, innocuous ad, celebrating the miracle of an inter faith marriage. If that has become a red rag in New India, we should all start growing beards and wear black gowns. As it is, protesting my sartorial restrictions, daughter tells me, Papa, you should join the Taleban …
It was a beautiful, bejewelled ad. Sought to reclaim the space and sensibility – rapidly shrinking in New India – that all Indians can live in peace and harmony with each other, occasionally fall in love and marry across what remains a major fault line. Today’s edit in IE about Bollywood refers to a similar cultural battle that is playing out between old ideals and a new power structure. 2. One cannot either applaud or fault what Titan has done. So many stores all over the country, covered with large sheets of glass that a careless child could shatter with a rock. When most needed, the police choose to look away.
An early riser, from a lifetime of morning PT. Organising a pre dawn swearing in ceremony is a breeze. Like the zephyr that billows through the Malabar Hill Raj Bhavan all through the day. Earlier occupants of the elegant, wooded estate have included Dr P C Alexander and Air Chief Marshal I H Latif.
Is there a problem if Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray ‘turns or is turning secular’?
The word SECULAR is special and should be used only by a select few.
Thank God the Raj Bhavan has not followed in the foot steps of the Bhuta Singh and Romesh Bhandari.
Indian constitution of 1950 didn’t have secular in it.
So long as the India of 2020 does, that would be wonderful. On a lighter note, those who are not secular should be sent to Pakistan.
Its only wonderful for perpetuating a Farce of pseudo secularism – a nonsense that is utterly meaningless and distorts the intent of the Constitution.
People who arrogantly and ludicrously assume Ambedkar made an oversight are not just uneducated about the Constitution but Indian society. Pluralism and secularism are distinct and apart as anyone educated would know .
Those championing the logic of foisting “secularism” on India, should explain how reservations focused on one religion would stand the Constitutional guarantee of state “secularism”. The word secular predates India – its definition cannot be twisted for the convenience of the poorly educated or the politically inept.
Secularism is a fraud and a lie in our constitution. Inserting the word during the emergency does not legitimize it. We have a farcical constitution that claims to be secular but is filled with articles that discriminate based on religion.
When Bars and restaurants opened why close temples ?
Good column by Shri Vir Sanghvi in HT, in which he traces the evolution of this story from the ban on Satanic Verses. However, I would draw a distinction. Saving lives is important. If Charlie Hebdo cartoons contain something deeply offensive to the Islamic faith, I would value human life over the abstract concept of freedom of expression. However, this was a perfectly sweet, innocuous ad, celebrating the miracle of an inter faith marriage. If that has become a red rag in New India, we should all start growing beards and wear black gowns. As it is, protesting my sartorial restrictions, daughter tells me, Papa, you should join the Taleban …
Excellency Tathagata Roy defined the new standards of acceptable gubernatorial conduct.
It was a beautiful, bejewelled ad. Sought to reclaim the space and sensibility – rapidly shrinking in New India – that all Indians can live in peace and harmony with each other, occasionally fall in love and marry across what remains a major fault line. Today’s edit in IE about Bollywood refers to a similar cultural battle that is playing out between old ideals and a new power structure. 2. One cannot either applaud or fault what Titan has done. So many stores all over the country, covered with large sheets of glass that a careless child could shatter with a rock. When most needed, the police choose to look away.
An early riser, from a lifetime of morning PT. Organising a pre dawn swearing in ceremony is a breeze. Like the zephyr that billows through the Malabar Hill Raj Bhavan all through the day. Earlier occupants of the elegant, wooded estate have included Dr P C Alexander and Air Chief Marshal I H Latif.