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India’s honest majority look to Modi to cleanse bureaucracy – M.D. Nalapat

Only an accelerated drive against high-level official corruption may motivate citizens into enduring for months more the pain caused by the incompetence of much of the bureaucracy tasked with implementing the epochal policy unveiled by PM Modi on 8 November 2016. – Prof M. D. Nalapat The most meaningful “majority, minority” dichotomy in India is between […]

India’s honest look to Modi to cleanse bureaucracy – M.D. Nalapat

Only an accelerated drive against high-level official corruption may motivate citizens into enduring for months more the pain caused by the incompetence of much of the bureaucracy tasked with implementing the epochal policy unveiled by PM Modi on 8 November 2016. – Prof M. D. Nalapat The most meaningful “majority, minority” dichotomy in India is between […]

Why Manmohan Singh should be tried for treason – Tufail Ahmad

If you are a youth under 25 constituting about 55 percent of Indians, this nation belongs to you and your children more than it belongs to my elders or to my generation nearing 50. So, it’s essential for you to know how these Indian leaders engaged in crimes against India while being in power. – […]

Notes ban and broken promises – G. S. Vasu

Not many seem to have noticed a subtle but clear shift in the narrative. On November 8, we were told that this historic step was taken to cleanse the system of black money. None can complain, even if it means short-term pain. On December 16, we are told that digitisation should be the new way […]

How the BJP has failed Hindu causes – Shreyas Bharadwaj

While Hindu children are taught that the Abrahamic monotheistic god is superior to their ancient gods, they might also be coerced into abandoning any symbols of their ancestral religion. Some might be expelled for fulfilling religious vows. Shouldn’t the BJP consider this an existential threat? – Shreyas Bharadwaj Robert Conquest, the British-American chronicler of communist crimes […]

Demonetisation: Personality trumps the rule of law – Mathew Idiculla

For people without bank accounts, demonetisation amounts to compulsory acquisition of property without provision for compensation as their old currency is no longer exchangeable. – Mathew Idiculla I promise to pay the bearer the sum of X Rupees, declares the RBI governor on every Indian bank note. As fiat currency, it is the state’s guarantee that […]

India must stand firm against predatory proselytisation by American missionaries – Suhag Shukla

Compassion International is only one player in an industry of humanitarian aid created by American missionaries where the only accepted currency is poor souls. Its marketplace is the 10-40 Window—home to the majority of the world’s Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims. Its marketing strategy is predatory and not at all concerned with the aid recipients’ religious freedom. […]

Christianity’s rise tests Nepal’s new secularism – Peter Janssen

Since the advent of secular democracy in 2008, when the decade-long communist insurgency ended with the resignation of the last king and a pledge to draft a new constitution, Christianity has enjoyed a growing appeal among Nepal’s hill tribe minority groups, such as the Kirats and the Dalits. – Peter Janssen Saturday is the one day […]

Maheshwara as the Mountain – B. R. Haran

“Where there is no Maheshwara Seva and Mahajnana Seva, need will increase; when need increases, vision will change; when vision changes, approach will vary; when approach varies, aliens will get into the mind; when aliens get into mind, the mind will get confused and that confusion will lead to change. Thus to fulfil real necessities and avoid artificial […]

VIDEO: Nobel Academy Awards (with Patti Smith singing Bob Dylan) – Nobel Academy

Go to 1:03:00 min to hear Patti Smith sing Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall”Filed under: bob dylan, literature, nobel prize, poets Tagged: bob dylan, nobel academy, nobel academy award literature, patti smith, poets