The cyberspace is now essential to the political management of memory, whether it is dubious historical claims about the Armenian genocide, or Hindu claims about the Taj Mahal.
From trivialising our wildlife resorts to defacing monuments, from killing tigers to burying our historical sites with rubbish, we display the same, very Indian index of callousness.
With his cameo in Bads of Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi, who has long shifted away from his signature bold image, got the chance to revive his boyhood charm.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
There were no plans to have Mk1A version. However, compromise was reached between HAL & IAF in 2015 since original plan for getting Mk2 would've been time-consuming affair.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
May be she was. But consider the following-
1. That scores of women committed Jauhar after the Khilji’s siege and afterwards is documented.
2. Malik Muhammad Jaisi was the first one to tell the tale of Padmavati- the idea was the provide a human manifestation/symbol of the pain felt by all and sundry.
3. In contemporary India, even the mention of Padmavati as “in some accounts” have been removed from history books, whitewashing History and promoting amnesia.
I doubt Mr Chopra gives two hoots about all this. He is a sepoy, a bootlicker of the West who will do and say whatever pleases them- lest he finds himself out of a job…
Nice article about truth , perception and how internet shaping it.
As far as padmavati goes, only past documentation was Padmavat poem, in 15th century…it could be totally work of fiction or some facts sugar coated with grand tale of rajput valour.
No one alive to tell the facts whay happened..all folklore based on what passed to generations.
All I knew about padmini..was in Amar chitrakatha…Our history book had no mention of this event.
Rest is wikipedia…which is being daily worked ..has that parrot story in it, which is ridiculous.
Dubious claims of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Khmer Rouge genocide of Cambodians, Rwandan genocide of Tutsis…I wonder why the author stops at the Armenian case. I guess, according to the author, only the negation of the Armenian genocide is “real news”.
I don’t know what you mean by Armenian Genocide being fake news. Armnenian genocide is a historically accepted fact. Other than Turkey, most countries of the world officially recognize the mass killings of Armenians as genocide, as have most genocide scholars and historians.
May be she was. But consider the following-
1. That scores of women committed Jauhar after the Khilji’s siege and afterwards is documented.
2. Malik Muhammad Jaisi was the first one to tell the tale of Padmavati- the idea was the provide a human manifestation/symbol of the pain felt by all and sundry.
3. In contemporary India, even the mention of Padmavati as “in some accounts” have been removed from history books, whitewashing History and promoting amnesia.
I doubt Mr Chopra gives two hoots about all this. He is a sepoy, a bootlicker of the West who will do and say whatever pleases them- lest he finds himself out of a job…
Nice article about truth , perception and how internet shaping it.
As far as padmavati goes, only past documentation was Padmavat poem, in 15th century…it could be totally work of fiction or some facts sugar coated with grand tale of rajput valour.
No one alive to tell the facts whay happened..all folklore based on what passed to generations.
All I knew about padmini..was in Amar chitrakatha…Our history book had no mention of this event.
Rest is wikipedia…which is being daily worked ..has that parrot story in it, which is ridiculous.
Dubious claims of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Khmer Rouge genocide of Cambodians, Rwandan genocide of Tutsis…I wonder why the author stops at the Armenian case. I guess, according to the author, only the negation of the Armenian genocide is “real news”.
“Historian” Partha Chatterjee That Duffer is a marxist historian …an oxymoron .. enough said
I don’t know what you mean by Armenian Genocide being fake news. Armnenian genocide is a historically accepted fact. Other than Turkey, most countries of the world officially recognize the mass killings of Armenians as genocide, as have most genocide scholars and historians.