The author of this article has waxed eloquent in paying effusive tribute to the memory of the great freedom fighter, Jayaprakash Narayan, being commemorated on his 121st Birth Anniversary which fell on October 11th 2023. https://thewire.in/rights/bjp-rss-erase-jayaparakash-narayan-significance The author’s main grouse is that the present BJP Government has not celebrated JP in the way he deservesContinue reading “A fitting tribute to a patriot and freedom fighter, Jayaprakash Narayan (JP): the man who drove Gandhism as a “Special Purpose Vehicle” (SPV)”
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Tormenting Minorities Amounts To Defying the Shankaracharya Order
https://m.thewire.in/article/religion/syncretism-adi-shankara-teachings The WIRE Everyone should read the Op-Ed piece above. It is balm for the troubled soul. It is always good indeed to hear calming words spread by apostles of peace (peace be upon them, wherever and whoever they are!) … such as this “veteran journalist” writing in THE WIRE who attempts to be one.Continue reading “Tormenting Minorities Amounts To Defying the Shankaracharya Order”
The Pettifoggers of Indian Journalism
PM Modi a few days ago gave an admirable and thoughtful speech about citizens’ Duties that ought to be placed above Citizens’ Rights. The tone and content of Mod’s speech was redolent of what John F Kennedy once famously exhorted citizens of America :“Ask not what the country can do for you ; ask whatContinue reading “The Pettifoggers of Indian Journalism”