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The Mahabharata Exists in Many Versions and Translations. But How Many People Actually Read It?
An excerpt from ‘Mahabharata: The Epic and the Nation’ by G.N. Devy.
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India | Print Edition | USA | World Politics
U.S. Reminds India it’s Showtime
The Modi government is going to come under immense pressure in the coming days to move into the Western camp on the burning issues of Ukraine and NATO’s further expansion, which would “change the world,” as President Biden framed the paradigm in stark historical terms last week.
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Rejection of Sri Narayana Guru Float for Republic Day Celebrations!
While rejecting the Sri Narayana Guru float submitted by Kerala, the central government suggested replacing Narayana Guru with Shankracharya – this only displays the deeper agenda of the central government, which is working towards Hindu Rashtra in particular.
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Thinking with Hands: Work as Freedom for Gandhi
Gandhi was aware that intellectual labour was necessary for the culture of the mind and accepted the necessity of a division of labour, but not the idea that bodily labour had to be confined to one class and intellectual labour to another class.
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Raindrop in the Drought
Godavari Dange developed a model of farming that enabled vulnerable women farmers in drought-struck Marathwada to stay food secure. Her life story captures the enormity of the region’s crisis, as well as the possibility of sustainable and resilient agriculture.
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Communalism | Culture | Fascism | India | Indian Economy | Indian Politics | Online Blog
The Age of the Unicorn, Brought to You by IIT Kharagpur
The geniuses at IIT Kharagpur have come up with a new hoax. They have declared the unicorn that appears on Indus valley seals to be a representation of “sage Risya Sringa” of the Ramayana, thus “proving” that those ancient carvers of the Indus valley seals were one and the same as the Vedic people.
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Communalism | Culture | Fascism | India | Indian Politics | Online Blog
Hindi and Urdu
The politics in the country was not as divisive and toxic in the sixties, when I was a child, as it is now. Urdu, for we siblings, was a secular language and not associated with a community or religion.
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‘Sinister Form of Censorship’: India’s ‘Cyber Volunteer’ Programme Pits Citizens Against Each Other
The project to flag unlawful online content risks turning the country into a surveillance state.
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Undermining the Idea of India
The text of the speech delivered by Justice G.S. Patel, Judge of the Bombay High Court, on the occasion of The Leaflet’s Constitution Day Talk on November 26. The judge emphasised saving constitutional values from being undermined.
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Capitalism | Caste | India | Indian Economy | Indian Politics | Online Blog
India’s Hierarchical Education Sector Precludes the Creation of a ‘Meritocracy’
India’s graded educational system mirrors the country’s stubbornly rigid social hierarchies. The poorest children attend the free government-run schools and those from the highest echelons of Indian society increasingly attend elite schools, with the rest of the society caught in between.
