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Sickening infatuation with Umreeka
September 22, 2013, 3:20 PM IST
O God, give us two meals and a ticket to Umreeka. The average Indian would dream to go west, vilayat, and be contended having attained phoren moksha. Nothing in this life matters like a job, any…
September 22, 2013, 3:20 PM IST
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De-Indianisation begins with elimination of Sanskrit
August 23, 2013, 5:32 PM IST
We may have to have a Chinese name if Sanskrit is no more in India. From birth to death, from naming a child to having a family identity, from marriage to pilgrimage, from wearing an…
August 23, 2013, 5:32 PM IST
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Saluting Durga’s Shakti
August 1, 2013, 9:37 AM IST
The name, a bit uncommon, is enough to feel the real substance behind it. She did what an IAS officer is supposed to do and what many others like her do not dare to do. …
August 1, 2013, 9:37 AM IST
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Men in Steel
July 12, 2013, 2:45 PM IST
Like diyas floating in the Ganga, that evening cruised with the stars. While Delhi was busy in the humdrum of political one-upmanship and media searching frantically for new TRP enhancer noises, a quiet evening in…
July 12, 2013, 2:45 PM IST
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Let Buddha unite India
July 7, 2013, 11:21 PM IST
The time to repay our debt to Buddha.
July 7, 2013, 11:21 PM IST
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Uttarakhand: Salute the martyrs, light a diya and have a dream
July 1, 2013, 10:45 AM IST
With prayers on our lips and gratitude in hearts, let’s salute the martyrs of Uttarakhand who laid down their lives while saving the thousands. On 5th July a Homage and Hope meeting is to be…
July 1, 2013, 10:45 AM IST
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When a hospital turns into hell
June 18, 2013, 2:21 PM IST
It was on a rainy evening that I noticed a board, ‘State Mental Health Institute’ on the left side of the road while returning from Vikasnagar, a suburb of Dehradun. I saw, ignored at the…
June 18, 2013, 2:21 PM IST
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India under Red attack: Fight it like Kargil II
May 28, 2013, 1:53 PM IST
Mahendra Karma, the bubbly, dynamic leader of Chhattisgarh was a wonderful person known as a noble crusader ‘unlike politicians’. About two years ago I had shared the dais with him in Raipur to release a…
May 28, 2013, 1:53 PM IST
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Chinese PM Li’s India visit: Building trust is the challenge
May 19, 2013, 9:12 PM IST
Known to be a suave, English-speaking leader, China’s new Premier Li Keqiang has arrived in Delhi amid the warmth of traditional Indian hospitality.
May 19, 2013, 9:12 PM IST
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We have a stake in Pakistan’s democracy. Welcome the change
May 13, 2013, 11:24 PM IST
It’s quite appropriate in the present circumstances that our Prime Minister, coincidentally a Punjabi, born in what is known as Pakistan now, should invite graciously Pakistan’s to-be Prime Minister, who too is a Punjabi, born…
May 13, 2013, 11:24 PM IST
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With firmness, move on with the Chinese
May 10, 2013, 3:59 PM IST
Long journeys are not scuttled for thorny bushes in the way –Prof. Rajendra Singh, fourth RSS chief. India must continue talking to the Chinese but with firmness on matters of our national interest. Hence when this…
May 10, 2013, 3:59 PM IST
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All I do is win
April 30, 2013, 10:59 AM IST
Someone from somewhere must come out and take India out of this insensible dark box of despondency and self-flagellation giving a dose of some hope. We are neither cowards nor aggressors. Then why should we doubt our…
April 30, 2013, 10:59 AM IST
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If Pakistan is a land of barbarians, India has become a shadow of a nation
April 27, 2013, 9:41 AM IST
After beheading our soldiers, the savages of Pakistan have in a planned way almost killed our man Sarabjeet Singh, an innocent Indian caught by their dehumanized uniformed gangs. Imagine, when Sarabjit was brought to almost the…
April 27, 2013, 9:41 AM IST
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China in Ladakh – A frozen state takes time to react to an aggression
April 24, 2013, 4:18 PM IST
But why was the government sleeping all these years when everyone was trying to wake it up?
April 24, 2013, 4:18 PM IST
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Butcher of Kargil flees, meets his fate
April 18, 2013, 8:08 PM IST
Boastful and arrogant. The man who claimed he crossed the LoC before the Kargil war. The one who refused to salute our Prime Minister Vajpayee when he had visited Pakistan at the invitation of Prime…
April 18, 2013, 8:08 PM IST
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Abusing the state can’t be a Google virtue
April 6, 2013, 10:49 AM IST
In a country where anything ‘phoren’ is lapped up, Google’s violation of the Indian law is taken lightly. It’s nothing but the naivety of some commentators who say Google’s depiction of Parliament House or such…
April 6, 2013, 10:49 AM IST
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The BRICS dynamism and the musical chemistry for India
March 22, 2013, 1:14 AM IST
Guess when Mrs Gursharan Kaur, the graceful sari-clad wife of our Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, emitting a characteristically Indian élan, meets the charming and highly popular singer, Mrs Peng Liyuan, wife of the newly elected…
March 22, 2013, 1:14 AM IST
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Mr Katju is a very busy man
February 19, 2013, 1:10 PM IST
Having termed 90% of Indians as ‘idiots’, Mr Markandey Katju, the headline-grabber chairman of the Press Council of India has been supported by the Congress for his recent utterances. Nothing surprising. Mr Katju is a…
February 19, 2013, 1:10 PM IST
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Afzal hanging: Efforts to turn traitor into a martyr
February 11, 2013, 6:10 PM IST
It’s shocking to see how a section of the media and leaders with suspicious ideologies are trying to divide India on communal lines, opposing the law taking its course. It’s time we closed ranks and…
February 11, 2013, 6:10 PM IST
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Hindus are the worst enemies of the Hindus
February 8, 2013, 2:15 PM IST
In his celebrated novel Jai Somnath, veteran scholar and the founder of Bharatiiya Vidya Bhawan KM Munshi has depicted a Hindu high caste character called Shivrashi who helps Ghazanavi to come inside the Somnath temple…
February 8, 2013, 2:15 PM IST
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