It is clear why India’s top advocates of Hindi are so conspicuously running shy of acknowledging a novel in Hindi winning the International Booker
Not just Islamic monuments, but many Hindu structures too were built by destroying earlier structures
O citizen, un-besotted by zeal, Un-fathered by the state, Between the heat wave And the hate wave Take your pick;…
Returning from the dying moment Cannot be in vain
Prices of fuels and food, and all other commodities are sky-high, beyond the reach of some eighty percent of citizens
The piety of the politic pious Is cruelty without redress
The question also arises as to why the corporate class, barring an exception or two, is so silent in the face of rising vigilantism
If moral teaching is to be part of a school curriculum in a multi-religious polity like our republic, there should be no argument against including moral insights from all our religions
The party needs to find a new consensus to forge its way ahead, and this consensus has to involve even ordinary party workers
Arvind Kejriwal’s success in Punjab cannot be replicated in Uttar Pradesh or Bihar
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