About a century and a quarter ago, a three-word prelude, followed by a three-minute long thunder-sound of applause marked as the knock of Bharatiya presence amidst the appropriators of the Industrial revolution, in that part of the globe which was drowned in materialism. It was the registration of a neo-renaissance, thereby transcending the human civilization […]
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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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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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(This article is by Swami Shantatmanand ji on Swami Vivekanand’s birth anniversary.) Swami Vivekananda is generally known for his sterling qualities as a monk. His spiritual luminosity did not in any way curb his love for his motherland. Mahatma Gandhi paid a visit to Belur Math in 1921 and wrote in the visitor’s book, “I […]
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