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Meitei society
Their behavioural patterns were lifted out of the books and diaries of the British political agents and their occupation forces.
repeated reference to colonial admn influence
I belonged to a Bengali Vaishnava family and
Perfection was a state of mind, a matter of perception, a make believe confluence of time, space, mind and matter.
Naga shawls, the Anal, Maring, Moyal and Tangkhul shawls.
the clothes of naga
valuable teak and agar wood
priced commodities
there were Dhars in Bengal and Assam too and I was not really aware what made them different than the colour of the skin, language and caste.
We had a fine beef, pork, foul and venison dinner.
beef use
in Jiribam area of Manipur that
The two-nation concept crafted on the soils of East Bengal in 1905-06 as a British engineered tool to divide the Indians on religious lines had started crumbling down.
a historical observstion
HumInt assets deep inside the Naga, Mizo and Meitei
expertise of the author
These feelings were strengthened in my adolescent mind by my association with the Hindu civilisation protagonists, the RSS.
confession of the author on his link with RSS.
The Indian soil and the Hindu way of life had absorbed many human waves in the past. Some of the major defined and undefined civilisations had emptied themselves into the sea of Indian humanity.
historic force identified
The Arya Samaj and the RSS have failed in this crucial field of unifying the Hindu society.
a judgement
after the British decided to escape from India,
historical judgement
General A.R.Dutt was fascinated by some of the accurate intelligence
the general was brother of Utpal Dutt
Angamis carried around them an air of superiority and considered themselves as numero uno amongst the Naga tribes.
Angami Nagas
complicated ideological contours of history that were frozen inside Naga psyche.
point to observe
M.L Kampani, R. P. Joshi, M. Ramunny, H. Zopianga, and S.C. Dev, grassroots experts in the Naga affairs,
Indian experts on Naga Affair
The political breed must understand that their pet toys like the IB, CBI and R&AW can misfire and injure them.
mark it
at the macro level there was very little intelligence input from Delhi encompassing the likely impacts
reverse flow of intelligence didn't exist.
Phizo Naga leadership would
We drove down to Gangtok on June 9, 1975.
a comment on annexation of Sikkim
Her critics at home and abroad had described the 18th May 1974 nuclear implosion at Pokharan as an act of desperation of a leader who had seemingly run out of options.
criticism of Indra
Lepchas
Bhutias
Nepalese
Limbus.
Kazini Eliza Maria,
25th of June under Article 325 of the Constitution.”
wrong quote
Very few of them were fired by the ideological fervour of the Bolshevik revolution and hardly believed in the socio-economic dynamics preached by Marx and Angles. They did precious little to unify the Indian society and fight against caste system and blind minority-ism.
the Soviets had succeeded in considerably influencing a large number of educationists, literatures, artists and opinion makers.
Maneka, her mother Amteshwar and sister Ambika.
But she was immersed too in the mumbo jumbo of superstition, tantrik rituals and fatalistic attitude towards karma
The shy youngman said that he belonged to a family of freedom fighters from village Rode, near Baghapurana in the district of Faridkot, Punjab. His grandfather Joginder Singh had taken part in the Jaitu rebellion against the British. Our host introduced him as Jasbir Singh Rode, a Brar Jat by caste. Harcharan Singh, his uncle and former junior officer of the Indian Army, accompanied him.
Colonel T.S. Anand and Amteswar Anand could by no imagination claim social equation with the Nehru-Gandhis.
The Surya magazine floated by Maneka in mid 1970 had functioned as a political vehicle of Sanjay Gandhi.
It would not be prudent to believe that they would develop permanent amnesia. Punjab continues to be a potent fault line.
would not be prudent to put a marker on 14th April, 1978, being the holy date when Sikh terrorism was born.
There was no place for independent players at the top and near-top layer of the system. Indira had added the new concept of ‘commitment’ in the bureaucratic system. Jawaharlal and Lal Bahadur did not tamper with the system and its nuts and bolts. They had carried out a few cosmetic changes to the inheritance they were endowed with by the British system. None of them had tried to indigenise the system to make it more compatible with the democratic and secular system of the Republic of India.
Perfection is an idea. It is hardly achievable.
Ottawa Gurdwara on Prescott High Way.
Hindu temple near Uplands, on way to Upper Canada Village.
extremist controlled Ross Street and Malton Road Gurdwaras in Toronto and Surrey and Westminster Sikh temples in Vancouver.
Tara Sigh Hayer, a journalist,
when T.N. Seshan, the untrained security watchdog called me to a corner and wanted to verify my credentials as an intelligence operator. His inflated ego and self-righteousness had blinded his inner vision that enabled normal people to recognise deserving virtue in human beings around them.
unfinished agenda of partition. The
They tend to resume the war after a little strategic rest.
The first scandal to explode was the Fairfax affairs.
The Howaldt Deutsche Werke (HDW) submarine deal initially contracted when Indira was the defence minister in 1981 blew up as a serious scandal.
