Category: Politics
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Taj Mahal is undoubtedly, the most magnificent mausoleum on earth. It indeed is one of the greatest wonders on earth. But history cannot deny the fact that the Taj Mahal is magnificently useless. Taj Mahal shows all that had gone wrong with the Mughal rulers.
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Bengal, historically, has been the sick man of India. It has a horrible past. It all started in 1770, when approximately one third of the total population of Bengal was swiped out due to a drought. East India Company, which had occupied Bengal five years earlier, looted the granaries, taxed rice farmers heavily, and subsidized the farming…
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In the last century two ideological schools dominated the intellectual landscape and served as a framework for social and economic organizations- one was communism and the other one was capitalism. While the first aimed at equality through a classless society, the other promised freedom, free market and free trade. By the end of 20th century,…
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I had once written a series of articles to bring into notice, how diversified the epic tale of Ramayana is. On my teacher’s recommendation, I had done an exhaustive research on the several ways the story of Ramayana has been told. My research also included reading one of A K Ramanujan’s popular essay “Three Hundred Ramayanas”. I…
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In mid 1992, several government officials rampaged a tribal village near Sathyamangalam forest in Tamil Nadu. They assembled the villagers at one place, and started searching the village for smuggled sandalwood. Then they dragged 18 teenage girls into the forest, where they raped them repeatedly. They brought the girls back in the night, and then…
