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Sunday, April 28, 2024
TopicMahabharata

Topic: Mahabharata

Rahul Gandhi’s no Pandava. A dynast who flees the battlefield, he’s more like Duryodhana

Had the Congress party president actually read the Mahabharata and dispassionately examined his own record, he would have come to the opposite conclusion.

The BJP wants to rewrite history so that its politics can be all about ideology

In a desperate rush to make factual history out of our grandmother's stories, these culture warriors denigrate something more powerful – power of imagination.

To attack critics Modi used Shalya, Mahabharata’s master of psychological warfare

Searches for ‘Shalya’ in Google shot up dramatically after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on critics of his government's handling of the economy

On Camera

‘Until Scheduled Castes get pen and stick in their hands, they will continue to be killed’

On 4 April 1968, Bansgaon MP Molhu Prasad delivered a speech in the Lok Sabha on the atrocities against the Scheduled Castes and their negligible representation despite reservation.

Government allows export of onions to six countries, sets buffer stock target

The government had imposed an export prohibition in order to ensure adequate domestic availability of onions in the country.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.