The visit by President Donald Trump to India was a massive success in terms of optics; however, only time will tell whether they have made any substantial progress in terms of Trade or other pressing issues in their burgeoning relationship. The United States and India have a lot in common: democratic systems of governance t...
Whenever I can snatch two-three days, I get into the car or a train and head straight for a temple site, mostly Brihadishvara Temple. Even in Khajuraho, I seldom miss an opportunity to just go and sit at one of the temples. As an artiste, it is important to take in all that inexplainable energy," said dancer and actor Shobana....
Never has a US President -- as the leader of the oldest democracy -- showered such unadulterated praise and heartfelt appreciation on the Prime Minister of the largest democracy in the world, as Donald Trump did for Narendra Modi in his address at the jam-packed Motera stadium at Ahmedabad, on his maiden trip to India....
This January 2020, it is thirty years since the Kashmiri Pundits’ exodus from the Kashmir valley took place. They had suffered grave injustices, violence and humiliation prior to the migration away from the place of their social and cultural roots in Kashmir Valley. The phenomenon of this exodus had been due to...
Drunk people are equally diverted by unattractive and attractive people, say researchers, adding that evidence suggests that 'beer goggles' effect really do exist....
Currently massive protests are going on against NPR, NCR and CAA. At the same time we are going to begin the process of decadal census in 2021. Already RSS is active in promoting NPR, NCR and CAA. At the same time RSS wants that Adivasis should register themselves as Hindus rather than ticking the column of...
When the father is a king of melody, a very renowned mridangam artiste with global fame and recognition, his son is a Prince in the genre of soulful classical music, a legend in the making! ...
Noam Chomsky is one of the leading peace workers in the world. In the wake of America’s attack on Vietnam, he brought out his classic formulation, ‘manufacturing consent’. The phrase explains the state manipulating public opinion to have the public approve of it policies—in this case, the attack of the Amer...
As democracy is seeping in slowly all over the world, there is an organization which is monitoring the degree of democracy in the individual countries, The Economist Intelligence Unit. As such in each country there are diverse factors which on one hand work to deepen it, while others weaken it. Overall there is a...
From the day he took oath as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Nath has been wearing his religious identity on the sleeve. "Hindutva is not the sole proprietary concern of the BJP, " he has said several times....
