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Swadeshi roots

Boundary disputes, border sealing, deportation of immigrants, trade and-tariff wars are paradoxes in our age of interdependent globalized economies;...

13.02.2025 9

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Swadeshi turns 120

News headlines from Bangladesh, and the diverse reactions in India and other countries, are not only disturbing and distressing, but also...

02.01.2025 9

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Frames of patriarchy

With ‘Laapataa Ladies’ (renamed ‘Lost Ladies’) as India’s official entry to the Oscars, 2024-25 will be a landmark year for Hindi cinema...

05.12.2024 6

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Past resurrected

Is there life after death? After millennia of Vedic-Puranic teachings and learnings, the answer is definitely a resounding ‘Yes’. Nothing dies, it...

25.11.2024 2

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Mental well-being

In what is a historic step to protect the mental well-being of young people, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a new measure to...

19.11.2024 10

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Their ‘lost Jerusalem’

Historical events through 2023 and 2024, and the shaping of politics and diplomacy, are providing intriguing insights into our world, bridging the...

10.11.2024 5

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Is Tibet forgotten?

There seems to be euphoria in diplomatic and media circles after the meetings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Xi Jinping, President of the...

29.10.2024 3

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The great divide

At the recently-concluded 23rd SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Summit) meeting in Islamabad, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar kept the focus on...

24.10.2024 3

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Waqf power at work

New battle-lines are being drawn in Parliament, and out of it, with waqf and its management at the centre of a major political slugfest. At this...

07.10.2024 3

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Mahatma’s agonies

The Muslim League ministry in Bengal should be able to control the outbreak of disorders in East Bengal, said Mahatma Gandhi on 21 October 1946 in...

26.09.2024 2

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Violating democracy

Sixty-five years ago, when the first democratically elected Communist government of the world was unilaterally dismissed by Prime Minister...

17.09.2024 1

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Striving for truth

Delivering the Hibbert lecture at Manchester College, Oxford in 1929, Dr S Radhakrishnan said “religion today is a branch of statecraft, a...

05.09.2024 3

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‘A continent divided’

In 1969 WH Auden, the celebrated British poet published ‘Partition’, a poem which is a tragic reminder of when riots, rapes, atrocities, massacres...

27.08.2024 1

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Maps as milestones

Empires and kingdoms needed maps. In times of peace and war, the importance of maps was always underscored; the accuracy of maps in marking out...

08.08.2024 3

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Lessons of history

June, July and August of 1947 were marked by frenetic political activity, stormy meetings and historic decisions at the highest levels of the...

02.08.2024 20

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