A whole nation wakes up to realise its new status! Let us reform our education belief system, so that we can create millions of aspiring young minds! Yes, the 24-year young man’s win is India’s great moment of triumph! The Beijing Olympic Games was held for the first time outside Europe, the West. So, the…
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Prime Minister at the Red Fort
What an irony of an Independence Day speech! Chairs empty! L.K.Advani, the Prime Ministerial candidate and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha was seen yawning! The Red Fort speech of the incumbent Prime Minister is always an occasion for celebration and also a momentous time to reflect and seriously ponder over the…
What Mahatma Gandhi could’nt do? What Pandit Nehru could’nt achieve?
The painful thoughts of the British empire syndrome The Raj Syndrome by Suhash Chakravarty,Rupa,2007 pp 400. Revisiting 1857 Myth,Memory,History,Rolli Books,2007 Leonard Woolf A Life by Victoria Glendinning London,2006,pp 526 The thoughts here all raise highly emotional and highly controversial thoughts and throw up conflicting images as I look at India as a country and people…
Priyarajna Dasmunsi’s audacity!
Claims Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh saved farmers! Parliament adjourned for a day over farmers’ suicides! Yes, there is a farce going on in New Delhi on the eve of the submission of the budget! The two Houses of Parliament, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been adjourned over the continuing farmers’s suicides. One national…
Latest UN Human Development Report
Puts India lower this year! India falls to rank 128, two places below than last year! The UN Human Development index is a clear measurable independent index on any country in the world to look at itself about what is happening in the world. India has been the source for much of the work to…
New books on Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi’s role in India’s Partition There are about 400 and odd books on Mahatma Gandhi alone. This vast output is besides Gandhi’s own writings and letters that are collected into some one hundred volumes by the Indian government. Every country that had leaders of great national importance, from dictators to democrats, from Lenin, Stalin to…
Keynote address at the international conference of Tamils and Tamil literature
Date: December 1, 2007 Place: Trichy, Tamil Nadu Life and literature of Tamils As seen from the perspectives of Tamils living abroad and outside Tamil Nadu in India 1. Introduction: I am highly grateful for all those who have thought of inviting me to give the keynote address to this assembly of Tamil scholars and…
Sir Isaiah Berlin – a biography
Sir Berlin was professor of political philosophy at Oxford during the late 50s. I used to attend his lectures as an undergraduate student. In his time Sir Berlin was considered the greatest living thinker of political and social issues. Being born in Russia and a Jew at that he was closely associated with events during…