इतिहास
January 31, 2016
Amendments in the Central University law as well as all the statutue(s) under which Central Universities have been established, to ensure that discrimination and harassment are defined crimes punishable under the Indian Penal Code are urgently required, says Prakash Amdedkar, in an interview to Teesta Setalvad.
Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar, grandson of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, formerly a Member...
January 8, 2016
January 8, 2016
Graphic Courtesy: The Hindu
महान सभ्यताएं महान लोगो से बनती हैं। भारत शुरू से ही महान लोगो की भूमि रहा है। यहां महामानव पग-पग पर मिलते हैं, लेकिन साधारण आदमी खोजना बड़ा मुश्किल होता है। जहां के लोग इतने महान होंगे, वह सभ्यता भला महानतम कैसे नहीं होगी! सुबह उठते ही मन एक दिव्य गर्व की अनुभूति से भर जाता है। इस पावन भूमि के चप्पे-चप्पे पर हमारे पूर्वजों की महानता के अनगिनत चिन्ह बिखरे...
December 19, 2015
Shivaji, valorised in Maharashtrian folklore as a riyasaton ka raja (the king of the smaller kingdoms/landholdings) has in turn been dismissed by contemporary historians and ‘captured’ by the extreme Hindutvawaadi (politically supremacist) right who would obscure the caste dimensions of his rise to power and especially, his coronation.
Within Maharashtra, however renowned...
December 8, 2015
Demolishing a Dream
This volume is essential reading for those who want to know why a religious issue so dominates the political landscape of a modern, resurgent nation in the 21st century. The politics, the legality and the morality of those who would make Ayodhya an epitaph for the vibrant democracy that is India is what this compilation of CR Irani's writings lay bare.
Hardcover: 210...