Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Selective Amnesia

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Don't bowdlerise old texts for the sake of political correctness The Times of India Editorial Saturday, July 23, 2005 There's no l...

Textbooks are not like the Internet where anything goes

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National curriculum framework & the social sciences: Romila Thapar The Hindu Monday, Sep 05, 2005 Textbooks should certainly be chil...

Diversity in Thoughts is common to any developed thought process

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The Indian Express Monday, December 19, 2005 History of thought Making a sense of History of thought for a civilization as complex and old...

Modern Indian history needs to be written

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Kochi : President A P J Abdul Kalam said that an authentic, comprehensive history of India from 1857 needs to be written. Inaugurating the d...
Monday, December 19, 2005

We must improve the quality of public debate

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Can argumentative India be governed: We must improve the software of democracy, that is the quality of public debate, says Arun Maira The ...

Plurality, Diversity, Multiculturalism is the new Trinity.

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Construed almost synonymous with democracy, the idea of plurality and choice is also lapped up by the market economy. The more the merrier, ...

Kautilya, Nagarujuna and Aryabhatta

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A Sen-se of our past: Indian historians should now respond to Amartya Sen’s insights VINAY BHART-RAM The Indian Express Monday, December 1...

A virtuous cycle of democracy and development

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Cooking progress: Democracy and social inclusion are essential ingredients for development in the 21st century By KISHORE MAHBUBANI Monday...
Sunday, December 18, 2005

Human unity must base on the idea of culture and not simply commerce

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Another year is drawing to a close and what we observe in what can be called the national discourse is sheer ennui. There are many voices, o...
Saturday, December 17, 2005

A poor person is also entitled to the dignity of an individual

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Stuck inside compartments Bhaskar Ghose Hindustan Times Thursday December, 8 2005 One of the most enduring legacies of British rule in Ind...

the Vedic tradition has been bypassed

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Foundations of Indian Political Thought by V R Mehta The Book Review April 1993 Ramashray Roy laments that the Vedic tradition as enunciat...

National assertion of Hindu ideals

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Abhijit Pathak The Economic times, July 7, 1996 Anti-colonial struggle in India could not be imagined without the assertion of Hindu ideals,...

We must make that opportunity available to all Indian children.

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Poor, little, rich protestors: The real grouse of anti-globalisers at WTO? Free trade isn’t helping leftist PhDs make money JAITHIRTH RAO ...
Friday, December 16, 2005

English is the social revolution Marx never thought of

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Urban Lexicon C P Surendran The Times of India Friday, December 16, 2005 India's future is in English. Not in Hindi, Kannada, Malayala...

Message to Sir Stafford Cripps

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Sri Aurobindo March 31, 1942 As one who has been a nationalist leader and worker for India,... I welcome it... I hope too that friendly rela...
Thursday, December 15, 2005

Remembering Palkhivala, a moral force in our Public Life

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Palkhivala was not attracted by the rituals and the pomp and ceremonies of a religion. He believed in and practised the essence of Zoroastri...

A Withering State

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By A D Mod The Statesman Feb 21, 2003 Recently a former Prime Minister, Mr V P Singh, observed that “the Indian state is not totally wither...

Anushilan Samiti centenary

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KOLKATA, March 18. — Anushilan Samiti , which once initiated Bengal’s freedom struggle, will celebrate its centenary on 23 and 24 March at t...

Reassert the ideals of our country

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WHITHER HINDUTVA? Religion Expressing Itself In The Spirit Of Jehad By RK DASGUPTA The author, an eminent scholar, is former Director, the ...

Comprehensive philosophy of internationalism and human fellowship

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FOR A WORLD SOCIETY By RK DASGUPTA The Statesman Oct 14, 2001 Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) says in his The Ideal of Human Unity first publi...

Look at the French system of government

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District Diary , a book by Mr Jaswant Singh, was released today at the Maurya Sheraton and Mr Shourie was speaking at the programme. STATESM...

Intellectuals are not pursuing morality

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FOR MATERIALISM Intellectuals Have Failed To Give Guidance By BHARAT JHUNJHUNWALA The Statesman Oct 05,2002 Our intellectuals often lament ...

Liberalisation process has somewhat modernised the economy

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All aboard Sitaram Yechury HindustanTimes December 15, 2005 Following their electoral victories, in Madhya Pradesh and then in Rajasthan...
Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Nandan Kanan

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Nandan Kanan means '" garden of pleasure ", and this combination of zoo, botanical garden and sanctuary 20 km from Bhubaneswar...