इतिहास
February 24, 2016
The NDA-government and sangh parivar backed crackdown on JNU on the alleged ground of ‘anti-national’ slogans such as ‘kitne Afzal maaroge’ and ’Pakistan Zindabad‘ having been raised on the campus has, among other things, given a fresh lease of life to the Kashmir issue. Some might see it as the ‘law of unintended consequences’ in motion....
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...