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| For Poor And Rich, Just Another Day |
For Poor And Rich, Just Another Day
 Kanchan Gupta
There are fond memories that we cherish and nurse, often recalling them to relive memorable moments of our past. And there are bad memories that remind us of events we wish had never occurred, memories that we want to erase from our minds but more often than not are unable to do so. Then there are haunting memories, graphic audio-visual images that keep on surfacing every now and then, often at the most unexpected moments, disorienting us and leaving us feeling melancholic. No mat...
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| Rise of the British Empire: A Second Look - I |
Rise of the British Empire: A Second Look - I
Anurag Sanghi
Indian history's biggest failing is in understanding and explaining the rise of English imperial power in the Indian subcontinent. Facing foreign conquest for the first time in 12th century AD, Indians have difficulties in understanding invasion, conquests, territorial expansion and the motive power behind such imperial actions. Equally for the British, the ‘gain' and ‘loss' of India happened so quickly, that they cannot accept the loss and they still cannot believe th...
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| An Open Letter to Julia Roberts |
An Open Letter to Julia Roberts
 Lt. Col. (Retd.) Mahendra Mathur
It is nice to hear that you, an Oscar winning Hollywood star, say that you are a Practicing Hindu after you shot for the film ‘Eat, Pray and Love' in India and that you regularly go to temples to ‘chant and pray and celebrate' with your family. You won a legion of fans after you essayed the role of a prostitute in ‘Pretty Woman'. You recently declared: ‘I'm definitely a practicing Hindu. Golly, I've been so spoiled with my friends a...
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| A Government without Accountability and Responsibility |
A Government without Accountability and Responsibility
Amba Charan Vashishth
In 1962 the nation suffered the worst ever humiliation at the hands of the Chinese aggressors. The Indian Army was then chided the world over as "the fleeing heroes of India". The Defence Minister Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon was then thought to be the person responsible by the nation for failing to perform his duty to keep the armed forces well-equipped for the Chinese onslaught which looked imminent to everyone except our shanty messiah (prophet of peace) the ...
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| Arrest of Some Hindus as Terrorists | Arrest of Some Hindus as Terrorists
B Raman
Some curious and intriguing aspects of the recent allegations of our investigating agencies against some Hindus of involvement in acts of terrorism against Muslims need to be highlighted. The first relates to the incendiary explosion in the Samjauta Express. The second relates to the explosions in the Mecca Masjid of Hyderabad. The "Hindu" of July 31,2010, reported as follows: " The National Investigation Agency's probe into the Samjauta Express blasts will cover links wi...
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