Unexpected summer rain turned the weeklong arts festival into a muddy nightmare. Up to 70,000 people were asked to stay put as officials closed the roads.
Unlike Maharashtra’s Enchanted Valley Festival or NH Weekender, Arunachal Pradesh’s Ziro music festival was a surreal experience for women, including those travelling solo.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
Ms. Bakhsh has nothing to say about the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan or even her home state of Kashmir.
She us concerned about Muslims everywhere on earth but nit in the plight of the Hindus in Kashmir. The targeted pogroms and genocide against Hindus carried out by Islamists in Kashmir valley does not bother her. She would not report it.
But these very same people are totally silent on what’s happening in Bangladesh. They are warning us Indians of the danger of communalism when communalism, in it’s most violent and destructive form, is tearing apart Bangladesh. Hundreds of Hindu Bengalis have been murdered and thousands of homes and shops gutted. The violence and intimidation continues unabated.
But people like Paranjoy Guha Thakurta won’t speak a word about it.
Ms. Bakhsh has nothing to say about the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan or even her home state of Kashmir.
She us concerned about Muslims everywhere on earth but nit in the plight of the Hindus in Kashmir. The targeted pogroms and genocide against Hindus carried out by Islamists in Kashmir valley does not bother her. She would not report it.
But these very same people are totally silent on what’s happening in Bangladesh. They are warning us Indians of the danger of communalism when communalism, in it’s most violent and destructive form, is tearing apart Bangladesh. Hundreds of Hindu Bengalis have been murdered and thousands of homes and shops gutted. The violence and intimidation continues unabated.
But people like Paranjoy Guha Thakurta won’t speak a word about it.