The FrongPage Magazine has a good interview with Nathan Sharansky, a former Soviet political prisoner who spent time at the Gulag. He makes a solid case for democracy.
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace – or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its [...]
Just yesterday, I echoed Arun Shourie’s question: are we really serious about the nation’s security? And what do I read today? The man in charge of ensuring that he projects India’s image positively to the world goes about publicly regretting that India has gone nuclear.
The Acorn has very perceptive comments to make about this, [...]
Asks Arun Shourie in the 1st part of his latest series of articles.
I won’t quote anything from this incisive article but will make a few comments.
Perhaps, this state of affairs was waiting to happen. When the founding fathers (a much-trumpeted phrase but sounds empty and hollow today) envisaged a free India, they put [...]
This interview: from a clandestine Marxist to a Marxist minister (Finance Minister of West Bengal) is amusing to say the least.
Normally a newspaper report/interview leader is supposed to be expressed in a neutral tone. However, the Indian Express is different: it takes sides when it is convenient.
In that time, the state has taken steps [...]
Generally, the world recognizes and honours people who put others’ interests above their own: commonly known as sacrifice and philanthropy. Now don’t get me (cynically) started on all those noble NGOs who garner funds apparently to promote this or that cause…
I’m sure most Indians have heard of Baba Amte, now about 90 years old, [...]
M S Subbulakshmi is dead.
Period.
Those who really want to pay a meaningful tribute to her can begin by listening to her rendition of Annamacharya’s Nanati Baduku Natakamu in Revathi.
Am I sad? Nope.
This sloka says it all:
jayantitE sukrRutinO rasa siddAH kavIsvarA|
nAsti kEshAM yaSH kAyE jarA maraNajam bhayaM||
Thanks Ravikiran for pointing me to this report. Just the other day I had written a book review about the Pinkos’ U-turn–among other records of their insidiousness–during the Quit India Movement. This news report smacks of the same stuff.
The Communist Party of India on Thursday sought [...]
Education
A certain Mr.Roger Scruton has made very perceptive observations in an essay titled Know your place. It is a must-read. Scruton argues that the present dumbed-down education system across the world is largely a result of a culture that values self-esteem more than real achievement; and that real achievement is gained through hard work and [...]
A question for all of you: we all know of Stalin’s infamous purges. This question concerns the period of 1937-38, also known as The Great Terror of 1937-38 where some 1.5 million people were killed in a span of 15 months.
Can anybody name the person who actually implemented this order with great gusto?
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