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Dilli Ka Babu: CIC sends SOS to the PMO
According to sources, the panel has now escalated the issue to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), indicating the seriousness of the issue.
Remembering two famous men who left us
Naipaul was disliked by almost everyone in India who had read his book (not many have) or were familiar with what he said because of media reports.
Mystic Mantra: Act we must!
Memories are related to the world of sense objects, of form, smell, touch, taste and sound.
‘Burqa jokes’ become a pawn in the great game of ‘Politopoly’
What could be characterised, absorbed and dismissed as prankish provocation of an idiosyncratic satirist, was not in Johnson’s case.
A visionary who reshaped India’s global role
Vajpayee wanted to allay Pakistani fears that India, particularly his own party, the BJP, wanted to undo the Partition of 1947.
Mystic Mantra: An omnipresent Almighty
Any question about existence is simply meaningless because all questions are limited.
Of Dalai, Gandhi, Nehru & Jinnah: For monks, silence is always best
What the Indian government and people across the country have done for the Tibetan people is unparalleled in world history.
Battle for Dravida dynasty to strain Centre-TN ties
The MGR-Jayalalithaa charisma had obscured the Dravida movement’s earlier anti-Hindi, anti-north and anti-brahmin edge.
Pitfalls of broken promises: It’s a long history
A wholly socio-economic-cultural genesis of unrest in Punjab in the 1970s was mismanaged politically and driven towards secessionist moorings.
An engagement with the almighty
Haj is a set of rituals that takes place in and around Mecca each year in this month of Zil-haj, the last and 12th month of the Islamic calendar.