Decoding ancient Indian history
Nanditha Krishna The Uttiramerur inscription is excellent inscriptional evidence of local democracy and administration during the time of the Cholas. We are told that there were no historians in ancient India:...
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Wind of Change
Fr Paul Lelen Haokip The present is best understood by knowing the past. What we call ‘the present’ will also become the ‘past’ with the wind of change. Change is the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Showcasing India’s Prowess to the World
Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty To begin with, I feel inclined to say a few modest words that there has been a long list of great statesmen who by turns became the head...
A movement against socially ostracised food
Harish Bijoor The old brands of yesterday cannot take things for granted anymore. Expect a generation of consumers who are that much more careful in what they put into themselves. Everything...
The coming of age of the BJP ‘Karyakarta’
The worker is no longer another humble element which appears and recedes depending on the circumstances. Radhika Ramaseshan The “karyakarta” (worker) is a cogwheel in an intricate machine assembly interlacing the...
India has to watch out for its eastern border
Several ASEAN countries either have a long tradition of military rule or are Chinese satellites that will not play outside Beijing-set parameters. Subir Bhaumik With the resurgence of the Khalistan movement...
Hep B vaccination, testing fail to pick up pace in State
Taniya Naorem Imphal: Manipur a porous State situated along the Indo Myanmar border once known as The Golden Triangle, is now popularly known as the Death Triangle as all sorts of...
Erase history from books, but it won’t leave memory
By Shiv Visvanathan Erasing a fragment seems parochial while a Gandhian-style confession would have been more impressive. The regime must learn to experiment with truth rather than tinker with it. Contemporary...
BJP playing its Kashmir card the PDP way
BY Gulzar Bhat The guidelines bar these employees from criticising the governments on social media platforms, and non-compliance could land them in hot water. It is the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)...
Apar Gupta writes: New IT rules vest Centre with draconian powers of fact checking
The rules were framed without the extensive consultation promised by the government On April 6, a new power of censorship was born with a gazette notification. The Ministry of Electronics and...