Last month an interesting book about forgotten India — Hindustan, Bharat — was released in Bengaluru titled “Bravehearts of Bharat – Vignettes from Indian History” by the young historian Vikram Sampath. A prolific writer on subjects history, he has written a biography on Veer Savarkar in two tomes. He has also written a very good…
Life seems a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma! Death, be not proud… Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men… — From the poem ‘Death be not proud’ by John Donne The First Court of Justice for a common citizen is the first Government Officer to whom the citizen submits his…
Not surprisingly, in the last and the 12th chapter of the book, rather appropriately titled A cry in the wilderness, Mr. Kulkarni bemoans his plight with the ‘holy cow IB’ for 35 years and reproduces some letters he has written to the Prime Minister and the Home Minister in this regard. And also another letter…
Narakasura comes alive amidst vestiges of Portuguese rule [Continued from yesterday] For those born before 1947, when India won independence from the British and after that year, visiting Goa and Pondicherry (now changed to Puducherry in 2006 !) is bound to make them reminisce the post-independence history of these two States. The reason is that…
Narakasura comes alive amidst vestiges of Portuguese rule [Continued from yesterday] I have heard, read and seen on TV Ramlila being played during Dasara as part of the festival celebration. In Delhi there is the famous Ramlila Maidan where Ramlila is held annually as a public celebration attended by VIPs and the public at large….
Narakasura comes alive amidst vestiges of Portuguese rule [Continued from Oct. 31] Goa beaches have an amalgam of names in Portuguese, English and in Marathi because of dominant Marathi influence and may be Konkani local lingua. It is surprising that though Goa has longest border with Karnataka, it is less influenced by Kannada ethos than…
Narakasura comes alive amidst vestiges of Portuguese rule The rise of Mr. Rishi Sunak, the Hindu British citizen of Indian-origin, rising to the dizzy height as the Prime Minister of England at an young age of 42, has many lessons for the voters of the democratic world. Of course, there are cases where young people…
I am 100% sure the late lamented World War II British Prime Minister and hero, Winston Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill) must be turning in his grave at the tiny Parish Church close to Blenheim Palace, the house in which he was born. Why do I say this? I say this because, Churchill being…
Congratulations to our dear Kannadiga Sri Mallikarjun Kharge, the veteran Congressman, on his being elected as the 98th President of the Indian National Congress (INC) on October 19, 2022. By the way, the INC was founded by an english man by name Allan Octavian Hume and the first President of INC was Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee…
Among one of the most popular Hindu mantras is Om Namah Shivaya. It means salutation to Lord Shiva, the most important Godhead of the Hindu pantheon. Shiva is one of the three primal divinities of Hinduism, namely Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the preserver) and Shiva (the destroyer). This is also known as Hindu Trinity. The…
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