The NEW 2024 Updated and Second Edition of my book is now available for sale on Amazon, Blue Rose and Flipcart online retail platforms . The first Edition out last year in 2023 needed to be revised to enable the inclusion of a few more very relevant research material that had not been accessible toContinue reading “Just Out ! Updated 2024 Low-Priced Edition of “Tale of Two Cities – An Outline of the History of Sri Vaishnavas of Tamil Nadu that was never written”… !”
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“INDIAN POLITICAL PARTIES: A huge governance challenge”, writes former CEC T.S.Krishnamurthy
Dear Sri TSK Sir, Thank you for sharing your article (scroll down to the end below) with me. It is a very well written, sober and sobering commentary on the ills of our country’s electoral system . The solutions to many of the problems highlighted by you lie not in the hands of the ECIContinue reading ““INDIAN POLITICAL PARTIES: A huge governance challenge”, writes former CEC T.S.Krishnamurthy”
Is Shashi Tharoor the “INDIA” Opposition’s very own Chanakya?
The Opposition’s strategy to oppose the NDA is made very clear in the Tharoor editorial : It’s going to be all about Federalism over the next 5 years… if the coalition of Narendra Modi lasts the journey. Tharoor in laying out the broad contours of the Opposition’s grand strategy, seems to be arrogating to himselfContinue reading “Is Shashi Tharoor the “INDIA” Opposition’s very own Chanakya?”
Preamble to the Indian Constitution: “The writing on the wall”
Keshvananda Bharti v. State of Kerala: In this case, the Supreme Court held that the Preamble is a part of the Constitution and can be amended under Article 368 of the Constitution. The two words “secular” and “socialist” were never reflective of the “basic structure” of the constitution and they today are indeed so veryContinue reading “Preamble to the Indian Constitution: “The writing on the wall””
“All pigs are equal but some are more equal” also implies that “…. Some pigs are unequal but some others are more unequal”.
Russia’s Supreme Court bans ‘LGBT movement’ as ‘extremist’ http://dhunt.in/R2vE5 By India Today via Dailyhunt ************ And here in India, even when the Supreme Court protects the citizenship rights of the LGBTQ community but stops short of giving them full rights of marriage , the Gays of the World condemn our country as homophobic . WhyContinue reading ““All pigs are equal but some are more equal” also implies that “…. Some pigs are unequal but some others are more unequal”.”
If Patel, Nehru & Ambedkar were here today they’d probably be likened to Tom, Jerry and Butch
If you scroll down right to the bottom of this blogpost you will be able to read a very interesting absorbing piece from a slice of Indian History in the days leading to the completion of the drafting of the Indian Constitution! It is a historic narration of course but today it can now onlyContinue reading “If Patel, Nehru & Ambedkar were here today they’d probably be likened to Tom, Jerry and Butch”
The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?
Prime Minister Modi is in the USA today ! And over the next few days INDIA and USA are expected to sign landmark long-term agreements which will commit the latter to unprecedented defence and trade ties favouring the former. India is said to be on the cusp of a so-called “heralding of a totally newContinue reading “The “Biden-Modi Agreement”: Over-ambitious equestrian acrobatics?”
“Ekam sath vipraah: bahudah vadanti…”: the great debate on NCERT history text-book
The only way to de-politicise History is to aestheticise it . Why this obsession with “text-book history”? Why this rancour amongst historians ? Why politicise history ? Why the belief amongst historians, academicians, politicians and students of history that there can be only one version of India’s History that can be true, “authentic”, “faithful toContinue reading ““Ekam sath vipraah: bahudah vadanti…”: the great debate on NCERT history text-book”
Genitalia, Gender, Biology, Physics and Psychology
😳😨…. The definition of Biological man and woman is no more determined by genitalia ! The SC of India enlightens us all today by imparting new wisdom! The Honourable Justices of the Supreme Court have a great burden on their head and soul indeed… It is a very, very complicated case to pass judgment upon.Continue reading “Genitalia, Gender, Biology, Physics and Psychology”
At last India now has a diplomat with a whiplash tongue that’s more than 56 inches long !
No punches pulled … India’s EAM and diplomat S. Jaishankar puts an Austrian TV anchor in his place … with devastating zingers ! Never before in history have I heard an Indian Foreign Minister speak so candidly and authoritatively in a foreign forum… Usually they would hum and haw and mumble vaguely and duck loadedContinue reading “At last India now has a diplomat with a whiplash tongue that’s more than 56 inches long !”