Beginning with 'chulha tax' & 40-square-yard plots in colonial times to an overpopulated warren now, the slum cluster of the 1960s has grown chaotically in response to needs of students.
One of the issues in the last decade is that the government has not found it possible to provide generous defence budgets, despite the deteriorating security situation.
Krishna is an ancient god, but his present-day superstardom is recent. It was the result of an entanglement between Rajput kings, Bengali ecstatics, and Mughal poets and emperors.
As Gujarati influence has grown, something strange has happened to my people. We act like everything is for sale. It’s as true of industrialists as it is of Gujarati religious sects.
The Satya Niketan PG collapse has renewed focus on Delhi’s dangerous buildings. From a hospital in Jangpura to Ghaffar Market, people still live and work in structures declared unsafe by the MCD.
What used to be a 40-minute car ride along the Trishuli River from Bidur to Dhunche is now a six and a half hour ride through rickety mountain paths and broken roads.
‘There’s going to be a civil war in Sindh if 28th Amendment comes to a pass,’ says Ayesha Siddiqa. Husain Haqqani adds that taking Karachi out of Sindh would be akin to ‘creating a Maharashtra without Mumbai in it’.
The killing of 55-year-old Chongtham Vikram Singh has brought back memories of Nido Tania and Anjel Chakma and a question that Northeasterners say remains unanswered.
Satya Niketan is not the only one. Many DU colleges have hostels under repair, driving students into cramped PGs set up in dilapidated buildings with dim rooms, leaking ceilings.
India-Russia ties have been among the deepest India has had with any major power. It has also mostly been a relationship between governments rather than between scientists, and that is its weakness.
India drew a record $127 billion from its vast diaspora, surpassing even the most optimistic estimates and giving policymakers a bigger war chest to defend the currency.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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