Deepika Padukone had shot a video speaking about equal opportunities for all and highlighting Skill India role. The govt now claims there was no 'formal engagement'.
Speaking about JNU attack, Suniel Shetty tells entertainment website SpotboyE nobody has authority to enter an educational institute and beat up students.
JNU V-C M. Jagadesh Kumar met HRD ministry to apprise it of the situation at the university, where over 30 people were injured in an attack Sunday night.
The star joins a handful of Bollywood celebrities, such as Zoya Akhtar, Swara Bhasker, Anurag Kashyap, Sonam Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, who have spoken against the violence.
According to government reply in Lok Sabha, the pilot phase of PMIS is being used to test concepts, strategies and systems before a full-scale implementation of the scheme.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
Blood Boils when they say Acid Attack on Lakshmi was done by a Hindu, while it is well known that Nadeem Khan was the culprit. This Film Produced by the Dhawood & Khan type of Kabali gang of Bollywood will be sending the wrong message to World about we Hindus.
This is nothing but political vendetta. Stamping down political dissent.
Shah can only aspire to be Putin or Xi; India’s foundation is just too deep for him to be able to sway the great country with his weight. NO pun intended.
India’s foundations are being demonstrated by the support for communal politics, shallow triumphalism and mealy mouthed hypocrisy. We are a very shallow nation that likes to cover ourselves in all kinds of imagined glory.
I have always wondered what happened to Indian (Hindu) civilization around the 8th/9th centuries. Why did it go into decline? A robust civilization would have stood up to the invaders.
Looking at Shah-Modi, I can imagine that the problems were internal. I hope that these two don’t manage to drag this wonderfully diverse civilization – with all its problems – back by a 1000 years.
As today’s demonstration by the JNU students shows, the Indian spirit is alive and kicking.
India as a civilisation has behaved as a continuous, and not a discrete entity. It has also shown greater absorptive capacity and as a result, become heterogeneous. Only the rulers kept changing, but the civilisation kept becoming diverse. In contrast, China, another ancient and equally great civilisation, exhibited a more closed character. Today Europe is displaying that absorptive character to a certain extent.
When Mongols and Turks arrived, the Hindu Aryan and Dravidian cultures were not wiped out. In fact by 1560-70 it was the Mughals (Timurid Dynasty Sunni Muslims descendants) who made a great effort to integrate with native civilisation. Akbar’s abolition of Jizya was the first attempt at secularism. However, it was Aurengzeb who took a U-turn from liberalism and went back to extreme right wing. Perhaps that’s why the debate is that had Dara Shukoh been the emperor, Hindu-Muslim integration would have continued. It was the economic exploitation and imperialistic motive of the British that kept the chaos going from 1757 onwards.
It is a long discussion, but at the risk of being told by you that I mix up a lot of topics, I will still like to state that there are many skeptics in India today, who love to question but fail to explore the causes and the reasons. Many refuse to believe that certain level of sophistication in science and conceptual thinking existed in the Indian civilisation. For example, many Indian liberals would scoff if someone were to state that Mendeleev’s Periodic Table was inspired by Panini’s seminal grammatical rules. But that’s precisely a recent cover article in the ‘American Scientist’ magazine (Nov. – Dec. 2019 issue) was about as the world celebrates 150 years of Periodic Table. Both Hindu and early Islamic cultures were way ahead in science, but it all fell apart after 10th century AD. The spirit of enquiry shifted to Europe but not without its own struggle with the Church.
To sum up, civilisations have their ups and downs.
This is a complex subject that can take a lifetime of discussions.
But I’ll make a few comments on the detailed points that you have rightly raised above:
1) Three of the most important discoveries in human history originated in India: the principal Upanishads, the Sanskrit alphabet (try saying ka, kha ga…) and the decimal system (not only the 0). If Indians don’t appreciate discoveries like these, then they are the poorer for it.
2) So the BJP Hindutva brigade is right when they complain that Indians don’t know their own heritage. But the problem is that they themselves know little about it. Since 2014 I’ve been waiting for a single meaningful mention of the Upanishads from them.
3) Try Googling Upanishads and BJP. You’ll get some interesting results. A BJP spokesman referred to the Gita and Upanishad (singular). So they probably don’t know that there are many Upanishads. https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/bjp-corners-rahul-gandhi-over-upanishad-and-bhagwad-gita-statement/1068289
4) Civilizations do have ups and downs. But after the BJP came to power, we seem to only have downs. Therefore if the BJP represents the majority of the Hindus, then we are in serious trouble. And my fear is that we are seeing a repeat of what caused the decline of this civilization more than a thousand years ago
5) A few days ago IR announced 3 private trains. One of them is from Habibganj (Bhopal) to Agartala. Average speed of this train: about 50km/hour.
6) 2 days ago China announced that driver-less trains have started working in preparation for the 2020 Winter Olympics. Maximum Speed: 350kmph. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/driverless-bullet-train-china/index.html
7) Remember that when the Rajdhani Express was introduced in 1969, it was the fastest train in Asia outside of Japan. Even after 50 years, it still trundles along at almost the same speed.
8) Points 6 and 7 and 8 should put in perspective the problems India has. I don’t see how it will catch up.
cheap revenge! govt resorting to playground level tu-tu/main-main tactic.
As a matter of fact / record, all these Skill / Start up / Stand up / Sit down / Make in India programmes have not added up to a packet of potato crisps. Even so, it seems petty to do something like this.
1) Kaan pakdo aur dand baithak lagao. This is the philosophy of this government.
2) you seem to like potato crisps. Second time in a few days you mention them ;).
At least two Print readers keep tabs on my posts – Aap aur RR.
ashok – your posts are wonderful and it is a pleasure reading them in spite of a bit of divergence in views.
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I second that RR! Without Ashok’s comments The Print would be rather dull. So Ashok, keep it up! I enjoy reading your comments.
Pity politics.
How come her opinion overshadow her achievements. When Bollywood image is tainted by nepotism an outsider who made it to big league should be shown as icon.
Good. She does not deserve iconic treatment anymore. Anyone who sympathises with anti-nationals is anti-national.
Blood Boils when they say Acid Attack on Lakshmi was done by a Hindu, while it is well known that Nadeem Khan was the culprit. This Film Produced by the Dhawood & Khan type of Kabali gang of Bollywood will be sending the wrong message to World about we Hindus.
This is nothing but political vendetta. Stamping down political dissent.
Message from Putin, Xi, MBS and Erdogan – welcome to the club! We are proud of you
Shah can only aspire to be Putin or Xi; India’s foundation is just too deep for him to be able to sway the great country with his weight. NO pun intended.
India’s foundations are being demonstrated by the support for communal politics, shallow triumphalism and mealy mouthed hypocrisy. We are a very shallow nation that likes to cover ourselves in all kinds of imagined glory.
I have always wondered what happened to Indian (Hindu) civilization around the 8th/9th centuries. Why did it go into decline? A robust civilization would have stood up to the invaders.
Looking at Shah-Modi, I can imagine that the problems were internal. I hope that these two don’t manage to drag this wonderfully diverse civilization – with all its problems – back by a 1000 years.
As today’s demonstration by the JNU students shows, the Indian spirit is alive and kicking.
India as a civilisation has behaved as a continuous, and not a discrete entity. It has also shown greater absorptive capacity and as a result, become heterogeneous. Only the rulers kept changing, but the civilisation kept becoming diverse. In contrast, China, another ancient and equally great civilisation, exhibited a more closed character. Today Europe is displaying that absorptive character to a certain extent.
When Mongols and Turks arrived, the Hindu Aryan and Dravidian cultures were not wiped out. In fact by 1560-70 it was the Mughals (Timurid Dynasty Sunni Muslims descendants) who made a great effort to integrate with native civilisation. Akbar’s abolition of Jizya was the first attempt at secularism. However, it was Aurengzeb who took a U-turn from liberalism and went back to extreme right wing. Perhaps that’s why the debate is that had Dara Shukoh been the emperor, Hindu-Muslim integration would have continued. It was the economic exploitation and imperialistic motive of the British that kept the chaos going from 1757 onwards.
It is a long discussion, but at the risk of being told by you that I mix up a lot of topics, I will still like to state that there are many skeptics in India today, who love to question but fail to explore the causes and the reasons. Many refuse to believe that certain level of sophistication in science and conceptual thinking existed in the Indian civilisation. For example, many Indian liberals would scoff if someone were to state that Mendeleev’s Periodic Table was inspired by Panini’s seminal grammatical rules. But that’s precisely a recent cover article in the ‘American Scientist’ magazine (Nov. – Dec. 2019 issue) was about as the world celebrates 150 years of Periodic Table. Both Hindu and early Islamic cultures were way ahead in science, but it all fell apart after 10th century AD. The spirit of enquiry shifted to Europe but not without its own struggle with the Church.
To sum up, civilisations have their ups and downs.
This is a complex subject that can take a lifetime of discussions.
But I’ll make a few comments on the detailed points that you have rightly raised above:
1) Three of the most important discoveries in human history originated in India: the principal Upanishads, the Sanskrit alphabet (try saying ka, kha ga…) and the decimal system (not only the 0). If Indians don’t appreciate discoveries like these, then they are the poorer for it.
2) So the BJP Hindutva brigade is right when they complain that Indians don’t know their own heritage. But the problem is that they themselves know little about it. Since 2014 I’ve been waiting for a single meaningful mention of the Upanishads from them.
3) Try Googling Upanishads and BJP. You’ll get some interesting results. A BJP spokesman referred to the Gita and Upanishad (singular). So they probably don’t know that there are many Upanishads.
https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/bjp-corners-rahul-gandhi-over-upanishad-and-bhagwad-gita-statement/1068289
4) Civilizations do have ups and downs. But after the BJP came to power, we seem to only have downs. Therefore if the BJP represents the majority of the Hindus, then we are in serious trouble. And my fear is that we are seeing a repeat of what caused the decline of this civilization more than a thousand years ago
5) A few days ago IR announced 3 private trains. One of them is from Habibganj (Bhopal) to Agartala. Average speed of this train: about 50km/hour.
6) 2 days ago China announced that driver-less trains have started working in preparation for the 2020 Winter Olympics. Maximum Speed: 350kmph. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/driverless-bullet-train-china/index.html
7) Remember that when the Rajdhani Express was introduced in 1969, it was the fastest train in Asia outside of Japan. Even after 50 years, it still trundles along at almost the same speed.
8) Points 6 and 7 and 8 should put in perspective the problems India has. I don’t see how it will catch up.
cheap revenge! govt resorting to playground level tu-tu/main-main tactic.
As a matter of fact / record, all these Skill / Start up / Stand up / Sit down / Make in India programmes have not added up to a packet of potato crisps. Even so, it seems petty to do something like this.
1) Kaan pakdo aur dand baithak lagao. This is the philosophy of this government.
2) you seem to like potato crisps. Second time in a few days you mention them ;).
At least two Print readers keep tabs on my posts – Aap aur RR.
ashok – your posts are wonderful and it is a pleasure reading them in spite of a bit of divergence in views.
?
I second that RR! Without Ashok’s comments The Print would be rather dull. So Ashok, keep it up! I enjoy reading your comments.
Pity politics.
How come her opinion overshadow her achievements. When Bollywood image is tainted by nepotism an outsider who made it to big league should be shown as icon.