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Today is a special day in the history of contemporary India. Today is the day when a train was burnt. Today is the day, 58 people were systematically killed. In the riots that followed, more than 1000 others died, 200 went missing, more than 500 places of worship were burnt down. Today is the day, some of us…
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Today is the death anniversary of the great martyr Chandrashekhar Azad- the man who stood against tyranny, the mentor of Bhagat Singh, the reorganizer of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, the chief strategist and executor of Kakori Train Case, attempt to blow up the Viceroy’s train, shooting of Saunders at Lahore to avenge the killing of Lala Lajpat…
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The land of the rising sun, the land of the dawn-lit mountains, the largest of the north eastern states, Arunachal Pradesh, recently celebrated 25 years of statehood. From being the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) for 18 years, administered through the Ministry of External Affairs, to being a Union Territory for 15 years, to finally transforming itself into…
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I wrote a good omelet… and ate a hot poem… after loving you Buttoned my car… and drove my coat home… in the rain… after loving you
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The king of good times, the booze baron, the airline ace, the racing raja, party pasha, calendar czar, super showman, the once Janata Party president, and yes, the honorary doctorate in business administration from South California University- Dr. Vijay Mallya, is in trouble again. He is having trouble flying, for the 2nd time in last four months.
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UP elections by-and-large mirror the way elections are contested in India. First regional quotas, then caste based quotas, now quotas based on religion? How much more must the right to equality suffer? Read my latest article on the NRI.
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A new trend is emerging in Indian cinema. Our new directors are fascinated about making derived films on real or known stories. Take Raavan, No One Killed Jessica and Raajneeti for example. These films had fictionalized an entire set of events, but viewers already knew whom they were seeing on screen. They kept comparing or contrasting, and due…
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In a modern sense, Nationalists and Communists are soul enemies. The last time a party combined the two and came to power, World War II happened and millions of people were killed. Interestingly, both the nationalists and the communists of India consider Shaheed Bhagat Singh as their hero. And why not? Bhagat Singh was among the few…
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Swami Vivekananda had written this letter to Shrimati Sarala Ghoshal, editor of The Bharati, Darjeeling, on the 24th of April, 1897. It is indeed interesting how, 115 years later, everything written about Indian education in the letter still applies.
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Media is the new Indian god- deciding the fate and interpreting the world for all, telling us what to dream, what to think, what to debate. The media has forgotten that the masses are always more intelligent than a single intellectual. Read my latest article on the NRI.
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सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 