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Swadesh Samhati Sambad - Bengali Mouthpiece of Hindu Samhati (September 2015)

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Varnam | How the RigVeda is memorized

(This is a guest post by reader Ranjith P, after he saw a RigVeda chanting exercise in a temple near his home) As you might �know it is a puzzle that how is RigVeda, �a ~4000 year old text is still memorized and chanted without making any mistake. It turns out that� people have made […]

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Sumpolites | Reflections on the 69th Year of Independence

We need a Lutheran approach to understanding our democracy and our republic. We need to get back to the basics, learn and understand for ourselves what our freedoms are, and demand that state see us as individuals capable of deciding our own lives On the 28th of April 1947, just before the start of the […]...

Acorn | When should the government subsidise training filmmakers?

There is no case for government to subsidise FTII (and, for that matter, IITs and IIMs too) One of the numerous controversies surrounding the Modi government’s appointments in the education sector revolves around a minor television actor being appointed the chairman of a government-run institute on the basis of his party, and perhaps ideological, affiliation. […]...

Sumpolites | When Look West meets Look East: India-Myanmar Relationship

A primer on the several hurdles that plague the balance and counterbalance walk between India and Myanmar.� On November 8th, Myanmar will hold its first open, multi-party elections since 1990. The election comes on the heels of a protracted reform movement that was put into place by the military backed USDP party that has been […]...

Acorn | Pakistans and talks

The problem with talking to Pakistan is that there are two of them It’s happened again to yet another Indian prime minister. He’s decided to resume talks with the Pakistani government after the process had been halted due to Pakistani transgressions and bad faith. Now, there is sense in talking to the Pakistani government because […]...

Acorn | A democratic death knell for individual liberty

A referendum is a bad idea Caught in a political tussle with the Union government that has administrative and “superuser rights”, the Aam Aadmi Party of the union territory of Delhi has thrown up the idea of a referendum to decide whether the union territory should become fully a state. Since there is no scope […]...

Acorn | Where there is no party line

Almost five years since the first stamp paper was stamped at a registrar's office in Chennai, it might be a good time to share some thoughts and experiences to deter other thoughtful, unsuspecting souls from attempting something similar....

Sumpolites | The UNHRC ? A Satirical Play

The irony of countries that systematically violate human rights laws, forwarding a resolution at the UNHRC�condemning human rights violations in Burma, is the reason why the UN and its rights bodies need urgent overhauling In a move completely devoid of irony, but fully befitting the ineffective stage on which it was passed, Pakistan on behalf […]...

Sumpolites | Creating A National League for Democracy

The challenge of changing the constitution was monumental and futile from the beginning. Suu Kyi needs to turn her focus on creating the next generation of democratic leaders. To paraphrase from Batman, it no longer matters who she is, but what she does in her current position, that will go on to define her. On […]...

The Broad Mind | Shivaji Asaa Hota ? This is who Shivaji was?

A review�of the Marathi book ‘Shivaji KoN Hota’ which says that instead of a hollow invocation of Shivaji, it would bode well if we understood his life, his achievements and his struggles. by Pranay Kotasthane (@pranaykotas) Possibly because they can no longer speak for themselves, historically important individuals are susceptible to massive distortions of their […]...

The Broad Mind | Why don?t the Chapel Hill attacks count as terrorism?

By Saurabh Chandra By conflating hate crimes with actual terrorism, we end up doing disservice to both. Many people on social media asked this question:�Why don’t the Chapel Hill attacks count as terrorism? Terrorism is violence inflicted to create a general environment of terror towards a political objective. So, the Church Street IED in Bangalore […]...

The Broad Mind | Deciphering the signals behind Asad Durrani?s utterances

The former ISI chief?s successive appearances on television last week are possibly aimed at building pressure on the US to fulfil their side of the ?deal? by Pranay Kotasthane (@pranaykotas) Lt. General (retd) Asad Durrani, a former Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) appeared on the Al-Jazeera Network and BBC�HARDtalk�last week, and opened up […]...

Acorn | Osama bin Laden, the ISI and the USA

The ISI might have known about bin Laden. What did the United States know? For the first time, a person close enough to the Pakistani military establishment—and often its unofficial mouthpiece—has suggested that the ISI might have known about Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts, and might have traded him in for US concessions in Afghanistan. Asad […]...

Sumpolites | Eradicating Polio

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his SAARC appearance late last year had suggested that India would be willing to support and help countries in the Indian subcontinent where Polio still remains a threat. He said “We offer the five-in-one vaccine for the children of South Asia. We will support monitoring and surveillance of polio-free countries, […]...

Sumpolites | Rohingya?s and the Citizenship Crisis

The issue of political recognition of the ?stateless? people is not just a function of the virulent kind of religious nationalism that has taken over the state. It is also an extension of the refusal, by the government, and the constitution, to acknowledge the validity of Rohingya claim to Burmese history.� The Rohingya�who had fled […]...

Facebook - Tapan Ghosh - Fatwa Against Female Athletes In West Bengal

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Twitter - Tapan Ghosh - Islamisation unchecked @ Bengal

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Twitter - Tapan Ghosh - 26/11 mastermind Lakhvi's luxury life in jail: Internet, mobiles, TV, visitors

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