Lok Sabha election-2024 has established that caste and larger caste-based reservations are more important than all-round economic development or national interests; that corruption is a non-issue in politics; that dynasty is still relevant in democracy; that honesty in political life is irrelevant; that secularism cannot overcome the deep-rooted religious commitments, rather it has helped in…
By R. Chandra Prakash Sanatana Dharma, true to its meaning ‘perenniality’, has survived several millennia of political and religious attacks. Today it is being practised by nearly eighty percent of the population of the country. Islamic occupations of 1300-plus years, and more than two hundred years of Christian colonialism did severely affect the Sanatana Dharma….
By R. Chandra Prakash Title : Why Bharat Matters Author : S. Jaishankar Year : 2024 Pages : 226 Price : Rs. 695 Publisher : Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd,. In 2019, Indian Air Force (IAF) planes bombed Balakot in Pakistan. This was a retaliatory action in response to Pulwama terrorist attack by Pakistan- sponsored…
By R. Chandra Prakash [Continued from Feb. 9] It is a fundamental truth when the authors emphasise that Hinduism is an open architecture offering a vast library of texts providing guidance and therefore there are multiple choices. Every Hindu can, and does, cherry-pick his personal choices of metaphysical interpretation, of guru for guidance (or no…
By R. Chandra Prakash Title: VARNA, JATI, CASTE – A Primer on Indian Social Structures Authors: Rajiv Malhotra & Vijaya Viswanathan Year: 2023 Pages: 160 Price: Rs. 250 Publisher: OCCAM, BluOne Ink LLP, India Caste system has been arraigned for creating extreme discrimination in the Hindu society. It has also been a political tool…
Title: Hindus in Hindu Rashtra — Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid Author: Anand Ranganathan Year: 2023 Pages: 135 Price: Rs. 399 Publisher: Blu One Ink LLP, India By R. Chandra Prakash Every news media today buzzes with two words — Ayodhya and Ram Temple. The occasion is the construction and the inauguration of…
By R. Chandra Prakash Title: Through The Broken Glass-An Autobiography Author: T.N. Seshan Year: 2023 Pages: 350+ Price: Rs. 795 Publisher: Rupa Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi [Continued from Dec.20] T.N. Seshan was aware that elections had become a symbol of corruption. He records, “The practices and traditions of hol-ding and con-ducting elections were going…
By R. Chandra Prakash Title: Through The Broken Glass-An Autobiography Author: T.N.Seshan Year: 2023 Pages: 350+ Price: Rs. 795 Publisher: Rupa Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi T.N. Seshan was appointed as the tenth Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) in the year 1991. By 2023 the number of CECs has risen to 25! However, other than T.N….
Second book of Sai Deepak’s Bharat Trilogy launched HH Sri Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar Foundation has organised an insightful talk and interaction session on the book ‘India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation’ by its author J. Sai Deepak, who is also a Supreme Court Advocate, at Vijnana Bhavan in Manasagangothri, Mysuru,…
[Continued from Feb. 23] By R. Chandra Prakash Today the medical system is a chain of interdependent, highly sophisticated services, each consisting of qualified and trained personnel. Further, the changing socio-economic contours of demography has created newer demands. The combined effects of these factors has been that today there is a labyrinths of allied medical…
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