Om Namah Shivaya’ be the invocation because according to a book by N.K. Singh titled ‘Saivism in Kashmir’ the first religion of Kashmir was Saivism — worship of Shiva. I purchased the book at the Srinagar (capital of Kashmir) Airport on my return journey from Kashmir after a week’s sojourn, on 3rd December, last Saturday….
Mysore/Mysuru: The Kannada novel Aadarshavadi by senior journalist K.B. Ganapathy (KBG) has gone into second edition after 30 years. It was first published in 1992. Kavitha Prakashana of Publisher Ganesh Amingad has brought out this second edition. “The book was published in 1992 and I had forgotten about it. However, when Ganesh Amingad, who had…
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…
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