AAP's leadership has shown exemplary courage in its choice of representatives. Consider the troika of Medha Patkar, Soni Sori and S.P. Udayakumar...
While the government has finally declared that it does not want to press sedition charges against Arundhati Roy or Geelani, the threat of arrest for dissent is an affront to India’s democratic values
The seller of the Gandhi items now wants them back. Amidst the welter of confusion that surrounds this entire episode, one wonders what the Mahatma himself would have made of it.
The elections are here. And despite the rhetoric, the NDA and UPA regimes remain virtually indistinguishable in their repudiation of the swadeshi ideal. But the political class alone is not to blame. Take the Nano car...
He was much more than a secretary to Gandhi. On various occasions he has been described as Gandhi's Boswell, a Plato to Gandhi's Socrates, as well as an Ananda to Gandhi's Buddha-- his relationship with Gandhi is a taxonomic puzzle.
Many current practices are relatively modern and rarely entirely indigenous. The foreign origins of coffee is bad enough but one can really ruin a Tamilian's breakfast by quoting the very convincing conjecture of food historian K T Achaya that the s
Are we to believe that we can feather our nest by any means, even if it meant oppressing other people in the same manner as we were in the not so distant past?
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