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. …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

While the saga of partition on the western front has seen ample research, documentation, and displays, much of the saga of the eastern partition and its various dimensions still remain to be narrated, documented, and re-stated Referring to a ‘private conversation’ he had with Jawaharlal Nehru, in Noakhali ‘around the …

Since the abrogation of Article 370, the suppressed aspirations of the people of J&K and Ladakh have found an outlet — paving the way for multi-layered transformation The fifth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 passed last week on August 5. Even the most biased and prejudiced, whatever their …