‘We are used to Khushwant Singh type of stories. I wanted to collect first person accounts of those who lived their daily lives in Delhi’, said Rakhshanda Jalil at the launch of Basti & Durbar, an anthology of 32 stories she has edited.
In ‘The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal’, Gurcharan Das recounts his own personal and intellectual journey to elucidate the struggles of being liberal in India.
Swami Vivekananda had a firm conviction that salvation did not depend on the grace of God—because ‘freedom always is,’ writes Rajni Bakshi in her book, Vivekananda and Our Times.
Co-author Enakshi Ganguly and other panellists appeared to have lost all control over their audience, which seemed adamant about escalating the situation to a shouting match.
When the Vice President raises concern over the Chief Justice of India’s role in appointing the CBI Director, he touches not on privilege, but on architecture.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
BJP has no dynastic succession, at least not at the top. You can trace this back to Vajpayee-Advani era. This act of spotting, empowering younger talent is even more striking with the choice of BJP presidents.
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