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Pratibha Patil (huh? etc) might finally deck the President’s office. The Congress party’s propaganda papers media’s fervent efforts to pitch her as the next big something (whatever that/she is) lend loads of credibility to this. For a non-entity, Outlook has found her weighty enough to dedicate an entire opinion poll. The poll results are shockingly [...]
UPA Inc is hellbent on continuing Nehru’s shameful Chinese legacy. Despite worrying news about Chinese adventures in Arunachal Pradesh, our venerable Mukherjee insists on pretending to be blind.
India’s growing ties with the United States cannot be seen as a tool being used by Washington to contain China, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday. [...]
Aavarana is a book Indian secular intellectuals love to hate but cannot ignore. The “average reader” (which increasingly means someone endowed with commonsense, a healthy sense of balance, and has not mortgaged brains at the ideological altar) chose to respond differently. In the miniscule market for Kannada fiction, Aavarna has seen nine reprints in just [...]
In a previous post, I had pondered aloud about the idea of India.
In two words, each consisting of exactly two syllables, the idea of India is: Rta and Dharma.
This idea has still prevented India from exploding into bits.
The Acorn informs us of the renewed terror-threat in Kashmir but there’s some good news in parallel.
One of the Prime Minister’s Working Group on Jammu and Kashmir has suggested that the right of Kashmiri Pandits to return to the valley should be made a part of state policy.
The working group on confidence building measures across [...]
Loot, Kill, Burn, Ruin, Smash, Destroy.
It works.
The talks between Gurjjar leaders and Rajsthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje have ended successfully with the Gurjjars deciding to call off all the protests immediately.
The first flowers of Arjun “Slaughter” Singh’s efforts have begun to bloom.
The folks at Pragathi have slogged it out last month to release a stellar new edition this month. A must-read.
Grab your copy now.
This was waiting to happen.
Prof U R Ananthamurthy has declared he will not take part in literary functions in future.
The decision came in the wake of strong criticism for his reaction on S L Bhyrappa’s controversial novel Aavarana that appeared in a section of the media. Prof Ananthamurthy said he was “misquoted” and in the [...]
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