20 March 2019 An Australian News paper ran a cartoon that showed New Zealand’s famous fern as composed of Muslims in various forms of prayer, thus in one go, creating a new syntax of mourning the loss of 50 plus lives lost in the brutal broad daylight murders of the faithful in their prayer halls […]
18 March 2019 It is not often that one sees a whole life cycle of change upfront and close, and Mr Manohar Parikkar offers this opportunity for political analysts and sociologists to examine, as he departs mortally from the scenes of his beloved Goa. What Mr Parikkar did was to transform a placid, almost alien […]
Only few, if not exclusively Tamil, scholars are comfortable with a pre Vedic culture for India, and even amongst them, some western Tamil scholars including David Shulman who wrote the masterpiece ‘Tamil A Biography’ do not accept that Tamil is older than Sanskrit, or the possibility that Sanskrit itself was a collaborative effort, taking in […]
Why you would wonder that the biggest judicial intervention that will save Indic civilisation came from a series of orders of the Madras High Court? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/keezhadi-excavations-madras-high-court-orders-transfer-of-asi-officer-amarnath-ramakrishna-back-to-tamil-nadu/articleshow/68428874.cmsIn fact, few people would be aware of a cultural war that has been raging in academia, which even Mr Rahul Gandhi does not directly refer to like how he […]
How do we see the way this will pan? At current times, a few dozen lay dead, in two mosques in New Zealand which is looked upon as an idyll, a kind of Tolkien fairy land. As their PM put it in the initial reaction for the tragedy it was certainly one of darkest days […]
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Reality Bytes:Pious or Pitiful?
15 March 2019 Games nations play are all in the realm of real politik. What many Indians realised last evening was how they had been caught up in this dystopian world, how their waves of idealism crashed when it met the great wall of Chinese pragmatism. Indians while they are so busy blaming Nehru never […]
13 March 2019 We finally come to that phase where the political die is cast. 23rd May 2019, the counting will be done and India’s next governing alliance will be revealed. Only spin meisters and folk with no political awareness will glibly call this upcoming contest as one between BJP and the INC, or even […]
6 March 2019 For quite some time now, it was clear that Mr Modi would not campaign on his ‘Vikas ‘ model nor on his famed ‘Gujarat’ model. The series of embarrassing figures on economic data has put the government in such a spot that even old war horses from the RSS stable like Mr […]
The night has passed, when Shiva legendarily evokes festivity and faith. For what ever reasons we choose, Shiva married Parvati and it was their first day together as a couple; it was the day he made the revelations of universal presence and celebrated it with his tandava; or this was the night when the grateful […]
For long it has been my view, that India has hyphenation with Pakistan, not because Great Powers hyphenated us, but more because, we still carry nostalgic tripe that has a strong undercurrent, particularly in the popular culture of the North Indian riverine plains stretching from Punjab to the Nepali border. We nurse some kind of […]
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