The cold dark night of 19th January 1990 was probably the worst nightmare ever witnessed by Indian secularism. “Raliv, Galiv ya Chaliv – Join us, Die or Flee, Yha Kya Chalega Nizam-e-Mustafa, Azadi ka Matlab Kya, La Illah IL laalh “ were some slogans which were taking round in Kashmir valley. We want “Kashmir to […]
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The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) led NDA government at the centre came up with the Citizenship Amendment Bill in 2016 which proposed to grant citizenship to migrants residing in Assam, who came from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh belongingto the following religious communities- Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Christians, Parsis and Budhists. Right from the moment when updates […]
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There is a common belief amongst the literateurs that fiction and reality are two different things. There is a belief that romanticism and revolution, devotion and debacle, reverence and revolt never go hand in hand. They exist at the extreme ends of the spectrum. Romanticism is filled with dreams and high flight of imagination. Whereas […]
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India is a land of diversity and the uniqueness lies in the unity of those diversities. It has travelled a long journey since the time immemorial and has retained the ideas of India alive. The difficult period of our Indian independence struggle made our country united more than ever. On the one hand hand we […]
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We Indians have enjoyed notable success internationally in terms of per capita income, but our performance at home does not necessarily match our progress abroad. I believe the achievements that we have made overseas—particularly in the United States of America—highlight the stark divide between the country’s potential and its actual performance. In this article, I […]
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The title might deceive one into thinking that this article is a eulogy to Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great or some other world conquering ruler. But no, this article is about someone who all though never directly ruled a square inch of land, ruled and has been ruling for the past 175 years, the collective […]
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As one travels from New Delhi to Shimla in a bus, the rumblings are apparent, once you enter Himachal Pradesh. The state roads make the buses dance and shake. Perhaps, one of the easiest way to judge the efficacy of a local government; judge the roads and you know where the potholes in the government […]
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India’s Look East policy was an effort to develop widespread economic and strategic relations with the countries of Southeast Asia in order to strengthen its position as a regional power and to counterbalance the power of China. The Look East Policy which was introduced in the 1990s focused on improving the relationship between India and the […]
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Bloodshed, massacre, firing, killing was the scenario on 11th of November 1947 in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir. When India was celebrating Diwali and Independence, Nationalist in Rajouri were defending there motherland without fearing there lives. With numb eyes and heavy heart Sat Pal Gupta a local of Rajouri somehow gathered courage to recount the bloody […]
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Nine judge constitutional bench of Supreme Court has recently declared right to privacy as a fundamental right. This will have far reaching implications in times to come, but the immediate impact will be on Aadhar. The status of privacy as a fundamental right itself came to question while three judges bench was deciding the legality […]
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What is Article 35(A)? Is this unconstitutional? Will the abrogation of Article 35(A) be a betrayal to the state of Jammu and Kashmir or boon to the people of that state? Does Article 35(A) deny social justice to families of Valmiki Samaj (Dalits) and women’s native of the state? Does Article 35 A violate basic human and […]
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Those who dreamt to conquer the world, were all conquered by the ‘sisters and brothers…’ of Vivekananda. All the compartmentalism was withered, the dogmas, sectarianism, fanaticism, bigotry and superiorism was thrashed just by these handful of letters of this monk from India. What the mightiest swords couldn’t achieve was achieved by this all-inclusive approach of […]
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