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R-Day Tableau Controversy
On January 3, 2022, on the birth anniversary of freedom fighter ‘Veeramangai’ (woman of Valour) Velu Nachiyar, the Queen of Sivaganga (1780-1790), who antedates even the Rani of Jhansi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted....
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Haridwar Hate Speeches a Shame
The Banality of Evil. Hannah Arendt, the German-American influential political thinker of the 20th century, who propounded this ‘thesis’ while reporting the war crime trials of a Nazi operative Adolph Eichmannin the context of how totalitarian regimes work and to drive home ....
Assembly Polls in Five States
The world now stares at the third wave of Covid-19, ‘Omicron’, pandemic-, with health experts warning not to be lulled into complacency by the ‘relative mildness’ of the new virus strain...
Revisiting Thiruvalluvar
Thiruvalluvar, who lived in the Tamil soil around two thousand years ago, had a very wide universal outlook about human life and society. Thirukkural, composed by Thiruvalluvar, is a unique literary work with a difference....
VP Singh More than Mandal Game-Changer
It was sometime in 1988. Vishwanath Pratap Singh (VP) was already riding a popular wave in urban middle class India, crusading against corruption and advocating transparency in governance...
Sea-Saw Stance on Bills in Parliament
As the winter session of Parliament concluded a day earlier on December 22, the mood in the national capital alternated between two positions-, continuing Opposition protests on the one hand and the ruling BJP...
