Recent Posts
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Sangama – a Conference of Online Nationalists
Announcement of “Sangama – a Conference of Online Nationalists“ in Bangalore conducted by Jijnasa -an initiative under CESS
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Changing dynamics of UP and the Hurricane from the West
Dynamics of Politics in Uttar Pradesh and Narendra Modi’s relevance in it for 2014 electoral battle.
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The War Of The Sapiens
Search high and low and you will perhaps, come up with a clutch of male names who bravely call themselves feminists. This is more than a little surprising if you consider that most people agree on the fundamentals of equality, freedom and justice, for all. Our age records ‘humanist’ as...
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Punctuations, Episode 5: Dr. Arun Shourie
Punctuations: Episode 5 – Dr. Arun Shourie converses with Jaideep Prabhu and Sandeep Balakrishna.
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Modi in Chhattisgarh
A lesser known aspect of the communal riots in the immediate aftermath of the 1947 partition is the role of the Jesuits, Lutherans and myriad other Christian evangelists in the tribal heartland of India. Sensing a leadership vacuum due to the Hindu-Muslim conflict, many of the Christian missionaries working in...
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The Right People – Episode 10: Kartikeya Tanna
The Right People podcast series initiated by Centre Right India to highlight people who are not politicians or involved closely with professional politics. CRI talks to those who identify with centre-right politics from across the vast Right framework – economic right-wingers, libertarians, traditionalists, Swadeshi right, etc. Undoubtedly, these groups bicker much among themselves and are...
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NEET judgement on medical entrance results
The Supreme Court has directed medical colleges to declare all pending Post Graduate results, which were stayed by the December 13, 2012, order. However, this is only an interim arrangement for this year and a final judgment will be delivered by the Supreme Court in the first week of July....
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Discovering Thiruvalluvar
I was travelling via a cab in Singapore yesterday, and as usual started talking with the cab driver. He is a 3rd generation Tamil here. During the discussion about religion and philosophy, he mentioned Thiruvalluvar. It took me the longest time to get the spelling of the name correct. And...
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Influence of Social Media on Politics
Journalist Rupa Subramanya tweeted, “Social media is flavour of the mnth. If you think it’s going to influence 2014, it might be a sign u need to be in the real world for a while!” A lady named Prerna Bakshi added to the discussion by tweeting “Why on earth do...
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How to Use Technology for Censorship
Preamble Censorship is an onerous responsibility and should not sit lightly on the shoulders of the honourable gentlemen and gentle ladies tasked with this duty. Fortunately in Independent India we have had a rich, varied, and long tradition of exercising this civil right with gay abandon mixed with sombre pronouncements of...
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Subhodini
A country’s future and its place in the world is as much hinged upon the economic choices that it makes as upon its dominant self identity that informs its cultural persona. Its cultural persona is invariably shaped by the debate between competing narratives about its social present and its cultural...
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Migrating Realities – Urban Migration
As they say, in India, politics is a sewer. It is full of filth and all sorts of evil. Communalism, fake secularism, regional parochialism, and a lot more isms that keep a common man a mile away from it, are its calling cards. Yet, when Raj Thackeray said, that ‘Bhaiyas’ (People...
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Sad State of the BJP’s Central Leadership
Without an iota of doubt there is a growing disconnect between the common BJP karyakarta and the party’s central leadership. Many of the party’s Delhi-based leaders are actively encouraging factionalism within the state units. If the trend continues, I have doubt whether the party will be able to exploit the anti-incumbency wave...
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Governments And The Art Of Reinforcing Poverty
It’s close to a quarter of a century since the day that socialism in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe imploded spontaneously. There is now both a general awareness and a general consensus that the collapse happened because socialism as an economic and political system was fundamentally flawed....
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Why Food Security Bill needs debate
Food Security Bill in its current form create more problem that it solves.