Pervez Musharraf: The last military ruler of Pakistan
The shoot-and-scoot military dictator of Pakistan, Musharraf, kept altering his stance towards India as per the contextual exigencies.
Discussions on popular personalities like Ambedkar, Nehru, Savarkar, etc. are part of this sub-category.
The shoot-and-scoot military dictator of Pakistan, Musharraf, kept altering his stance towards India as per the contextual exigencies.
Narayan passed on at his home in Patna on 8th October 1979, from the impacts of diabetes and heart disease
Maestro Ilaiyaraaja, better known as Isaignani, often called “Raasayya” by his beloved legion fans, is an artist of the millennium.
Gandhi warned that partitioning India would not solve communal problems and that it would lead to catastrophic violence.
As Gandhi stood for Poorna Swaraj where citizens will have the collective right to have a sovereign state to realize their individual rights to freedom and also the state will not be coercive in the hands of any one particular class rather it will be the instrument of the whole society.
As Gandhi stood for Poorna Swaraj where citizens will have the collective right to have a sovereign state to realize their individual rights to freedom and also the state will not be coercive in the hands of any one particular class rather it will be the instrument of the whole society.
This personal essay walks a lane inwards with three great educationists. The vision of the three men provokes an understanding of what is wrong with prevailing schooling practices. Education involves a search within. In this exploratory quest the three educational philosophers Jiddu Krishnamurti, Rabindranath Tagore and Avijit Pathak have walked the road less traveled. Walking…
As India goes on to commemorate its 75th year of independence, one’s mind wanders back to India’s colonial past and the noteworthy contribution of its brave freedom fighters, whose patriotism and valiance resulted in the country’s freedom from the oppressive and prejudiced rule of the British Empire. Freda Marie Houlston hailed from the city of…
In the year 1905, India was being ravaged by the oppressive policies of the British. Bengal was being partitioned into the Muslim majority regions of East Bengal and the Hindu majority regions of the West. The Indian National Congress recognised that this rash and brutal act was an attempt to “divide and rule”, and a…
The Gandhian notion of religion was not one based on exclusivity or coercion. His philosophy is one that a modern-day individual can strive towards, but only hope to achieve.
The Indian society which was just recovering from the wounds inflicted by the tragic Partition was still divided based on caste, linguistic and religion induced differences
Georg Elser (1903- 45) was an artisan trained in carpentry and metalwork who planned and almost executed an assassination of Adolf Hitler.