Tag Archives: India

Bande Bharat Express

Posted on December 11, 2025 by secondsaturn

I managed to ride on the Bande Bharat express after all. Once was a trip from Delhi to Jaipur and the second one was a to and fro between Howrah and Santiniketan. In the latter case, the train was attended … Continue reading →

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Taslima Nasreen vs Javed Akhtar

Posted on October 2, 2025 by secondsaturn

Taslima Nasreen dropped the atom bomb on the politics of Bengal, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan by observing that the Bengali culture is foundationally and fundamentally Hindu. There cannot be any category like a Bengal Muslim unless as an oxymoron. To … Continue reading →

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India’s Ancient Wisdom

Posted on July 9, 2025 by secondsaturn

There are many enthusiastic young scholars and teachers who imagine that the Sanatan dharma of India is the core of its ancient wisdom and knowledge and hence India exerts or should exert a moral power as in the eponymous epithet … Continue reading →

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Rammohun Roy’s Legacy: Challenging Religious Extremism

Posted on May 24, 2025 by secondsaturn

Fight Theology for 22nd May 2025, 253rd Birth Anniversary of Raja Rammohun Roy Rabindranath Tagore wrote of Raja Rammohun Roy that if Bharat struggles to find itself, it will keep looking out for Rammohun. Truly, in everyday life of India … Continue reading →

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Is India Poor?

Posted on February 11, 2025 by secondsaturn

It is true that poverty in India has declined. It has declined in absolute terms to just about 4.62% of the population, a massive step up from the 66% we had at the time of Independence. It is also true … Continue reading →

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Ram vs Krishna

Posted on October 11, 2024 by secondsaturn

A young professor at a reputed University uses a novel method to teach about myths; he uses film stars and their fandom to explain the popularity of Ram or Krishna. This ingenious way of teaching has the power to immediately … Continue reading →

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Industries of West Bengal

Posted on May 23, 2024 by secondsaturn

The Trinamool Congress has posted a list of some 70 odd industrial units which have been closed during the life and times of the CPM in Bengal. This is a snide comment on the supposed promise to give jobs made … Continue reading →

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Khayal’s Secret History

Posted on April 12, 2024 by secondsaturn

Prof R Mahalakshmi of Centre for Historical Studies, JNU is presenting and hosting a short lecture demonstration on the Khayal by Vidushi Madhumita Ray. The programme is curated and researched by Heather House LLP. The course is free of cost … Continue reading →

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Rammohun Roy and Dhrupad – Whats the connection with Sati?

Posted on January 9, 2024 by secondsaturn

In the early decades of the 19th century Raja Rammohun Roy, when introducing music as part of Vedic prayers in the Brahma Sabha, that was to become the Brahmo Samaj later in 1828, he made dhrupad as the foundation of … Continue reading →

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Hypernationalism Cost Us Our Victory

Posted on December 8, 2023 by secondsaturn

When will India realize that hypernationalism is a disease of the mind, most lethal and vicious? Its fall out can be clearly seen in the fact that no factor other than the hype created by the spectators, media, and every … Continue reading →

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