by Ashok Celly
Thanks to the BJP and its sister organisations, the media is buzzing with the discourse on nationalism. The ruling party has emerged as the self-appointed champion of nationalism. Convinced that it is on a strong wicket when it (...)
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Saffron Nationalism and its Perils
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Lessons from the Chinese Aircraft Carrier
8 June 2017by Bhartendu Kumar Singh
Aircraft carriers have, for long, symbolised great power prestige and power projection. China also recognised the centrality of aircraft carriers in its military modernisation programme, more so, after the area denial (...) -
A Horse’s Sunset
8 June 2017With a glistening young body,
shiny trimmed manes, slender legs,
the colt gracefully cantered
into the glittering world of celluloid.
It grew into a steed, galloping
along dusty roads, sandy tracks,
with a gun-wielding hero
or a sabre-rattling (...) -
An Adventurist India
8 June 2017, by Apratim MukarjiThe showmanship displayed in reshaping and reorienting Indian foreign policy in the first few months of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ascendancy to power in 2014, which had dazzled diplomats and scholars across the world, has long given way to (...) -
When the World is a Stranger
8 June 2017, by Badri RainaWhen the world is a stranger,
Go humanise it;
When the world is a dictator,
Go democratise it.
When the world will not look
Into the kindness in your eyes,
Sing a song of togetherness
That callousness defies.
When justice becomes an empty (...) -
Reimagining India in Britain
8 June 2017by L.K. Sharma
The Great India Show covers even science in India. It has been blessed by the two governments. Britain is out on a mission to rediscover India.
Those wanting to take a condensed course in India’s heritage and contemporary culture (...) -
Saeed Suhrawardy
8 June 2017TRIBUTE
by Masoom Moradabadi
Words fail to express the loss caused by the demise of Saeed Suhrawardy Sahab to the Urdu world. As he was laid to rest on March 10 at the burial ground, Mehendiyan, near the Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), the (...) -
Give Kashmir a Ceasefire
8 June 2017by H.K. Dua
Several prominent citizens from different walks of life have called for a declaration of ceasefire in Kashmir during the month of Ramzan, beginning on Friday (May 26). Their appeal needs to be immediately heeded, both by the Centre (...) -
Advice
8 June 2017Age:
‘This wind, this storm, this furious flow This thunder and lightning, this frightening show The night is dark, the ocean heaves No torch to guide, or star aglow Traveller, stay where your are, fight not this flow.”
Youth:
‘For him is the (...) -
The Army as the Politicians’ Human Shield?
8 June 2017, by S G VombatkereThe recent video clip of a civilian strapped to the front of an Army vehicle deployed in internal security (IS) operations in Kashmir has made headlines. Many Army veterans are defending it as a tactical means to avoid stone-pelting and thus (...)
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