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Rahul Gandhi’s Grammar of Anarchy: A Recipe for Disaster

Rahul Gandhi, along with his minders and advisers in the Congress, believes that the grammar of anarchy will revive the Congress, help it win more seats, and expand its political footprint across the country The script that Rahul Gandhi reads on foreign soil is rooted in a grammar of anarchy. …

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‘Creator of values’

In line with Prime Minister Modi’s vision, India is re-emerging as a global knowledge hub, exemplified by the relaunch of Nalanda University and international IIT campuses, among other things It was a fortuitous coincidence that just around the time that the Nalanda University was re-inaugurated, symbolising the achievement of a …

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How India Has Become A Major Geopolitical Actor And ‘Kalyana-Mitra’

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi concludes another landmark visit to Singapore, one is reminded of recent observations by Singapore’s diplomat-emeritus, Kishore Mahbubani. In a significant remark, Mahbubani asked, “How many leaders in the world can comfortably visit both Russia and Ukraine and be warmly received by both countries? Very few. …

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Opinion | Remembering Partition Horrors, Commemorating the Tricolour: PM Modi’s Twin Calls

In 2022, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed declaring August 14 as a day of remembrance for those who suffered the torments of partition and also perished in it, a section of the gatekeepers of history writing and dissemination opposed him. They opposed his naming the remembrance as ‘Partition Horrors …

Era Sezhiyan retrieved and reprinted the Shah Commission Report, which investigated and documented the infamous Indira-Congress imposed Emergency of 1975-77. (Image: AFP File)
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Opinion | The Report They Tried to Bury: The Shah Commission and the Emergency

The Indira Gandhi government believed destroying the Shah Commission Report would erase the 1975 Emergency from India’s memory. But history, like truth, has a way of re-emerging The late Era Sezhiyan (1923-2017) was a stellar parliamentarian, public intellectual, writer, political leader, and associate of Annadurai, the founder of the DMK. …

PM Modi conferred with Russia’s highest national award, the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle by President Vladimir Putin in Kremlin. (Image/X)
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Opinion | PM Modi’s Russia Visit: A Symbolic Dimension

In a historic moment, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was being conferred Russia’s highest civilian award, the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, by President Vladimir Putin within the historic precincts of the Kremlin, one’s mind wandered to the innumerable scholars and thinkers who shaped the India-Russia narrative …

Sandeshkhali is to Mamata Banerjee what Marichjhapi was to Jyoti Basu. (PTI/File)
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Opinion | Why Sandeshkhali is the New Marichjhapi

The Marichjhapi scale was much bigger, but the mindset that drove the Marichjhapi massacre and the Sandeshkhali subjugation and exploitation is the same. Jyoti Basu got away with Marichjhapi, but Sandeshkhali will prove to be Mamata Banerjee’s undoing Sandeshkhali is to Mamata Banerjee what Marichjhapi was to Jyoti Basu. Marichjhapi …

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To Rid Free India of Symbols of Subjection

What could not be done in 60 years, Narendra Modi has done in a decade and India’s rise on the ladder as an economic power from 11th position to 5th best signifies the scale of transformation and performance The BJP’s national council meet – its national convention – concluded on …

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Opinion | Edifice of a Swaraj State with Swaraj Character

The grand and ennobling Ram Mandir at Ayodhya is one of the finest and most enduring symbols and edifices of the Swaraj state with a Swaraj character. In one of his early writings, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, who was, besides being the originator of the ideological and philosophical bases of the …

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সংসদ ভবন – এ হামলার মূল “মাস্টারমাইন্ড” ললিত ঝাঁ – এর সঙ্গে তৃণমূল কংগ্রেসের একাধিক নেতাদের যোগাযোগ

সংসদ ভবন – এ হামলার মূল ” মাস্টারমাইন্ড ” ললিত ঝাঁ – এর সঙ্গে তৃণমূল কংগ্রেসের একাধিক নেতাদের যোগাযোগ – কৃষ্ণনগরের তৃণমূল কংগ্রেসের সাংসদ মহুয়া মৈত্র – এর MP password এর অপব্যবহার – বেলডাঙা বিস্ফোরণের সঙ্গে তৃণমূল কংগ্রেসের যোগ – সমস্ত রকম দেশবিরোধী কাজের সঙ্গে তৃণমূল কংগ্রেসের যোগাযোগ রয়েছে সেটা …

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Opinion | North-South Divide: A False and Vicious Dichotomy

The ‘North-South’ divide debate that the Congress is trying to foist on us, after its recent electoral debacle, is passé and will not strike roots anymore. Among the many myriad things he has achieved, many new narratives that he has generated, and many warped narratives that he has challenged and …

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Called on Swami Biswatmananda Ji (Dilip Maharaj) General Secretary, Bharat Sevashram Sangh, at the headquarters in Ballygunge

Called on Swami Biswatmananda Ji (Dilip Maharaj) General Secretary, Bharat Sevashram Sangh, at the headquarters in Ballygunge, greeted him on #Deepavali and #KaliPuja and sought his blessings. Paid obeisance at the living quarters, once sanctified by the presence of Guru Maharaj Acharya Pranavananda Ji. Selflessly working for the marginalised and …

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Opinion | Durga Puja: Why Obfuscate A Hindu Religious Festival’s Essence

For The New York Times, habitué in Hindu baiting and denigrating Hindu festivals and rituals, the Durga Puja has not been an exception. Its New Delhi-based correspondent, an Indian, Suhasini Raj, who seems to have never participated in Durga Puja in West Bengal, and to have little grounding in Indian traditions, …

Mission Moon: A watershed moment
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Mission Moon: A watershed moment

The success of Chandrayaan-3 mission is a culmination of India’s deep-rooted scientific temper which has defied all attempts aimed at subduing it. This last week has been an action-packed week in many respects, clearly indicating that the India of Amrit-Kaal rises driven by determination, confidence and a resolve to forsake …