Last week we saw ‘The Great Derangement’ of our times (to paraphrase Amitav Ghosh) on the issue of environment when world’s most prosperous and supposedly most modern economy reneged on its commitment towards climate change. India, however, has demonstrated its willingness to contribute towards clean energy revolution by not only sticking to Paris Agreement but also going ‘above and beyond’ it. In a way it is in our civilisational DNA. The Indian outlook has been global and Indian ecological thought …
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In every culture, there are heroes, mythical figures, divine beings who inform the collective conscience of the nation and represent its ‘civilizational values’. Lord Ram and Krishna though considered divine reincarnation of God are also the figures in Indian society who have a defining presence in terms of influencing our values and morals since ages. What we grasp from their character and conduct however is also dependent on how you view their story. For example, the popular idiom in which …
Unwrapping a painting, capturing it into your eyes, dissecting it stroke by stroke, colour by colour, every inch of the canvas – reading Derek Walcott’s poems is a lingering joy. No wonder, his early ambition and training was in painting. Every word of his poems holds your hand and takes you along with this much-traveled man, to his journeys and tours. His poems packed with the fragrance of culture and history, are informative and imaginative at the same time. ‘In …
Ghalib is to Urdu, what Shakespeare is to English! He is without doubt the most influential and most popular Urdu Shayar and perhaps one of the most important writer of last 500 years in India. कह्ते हैं (और सच भी है ) के गालिब के कलाम में गहराई (depth) भी है और घिराई (range) भी । उदाहरण के तौर पर-“ है परे सरहद-ए-इदराक से अपना मस्जूद,किब्ले को एह्ल-ए-नज़र किब्ला-नुमा कहते हैं ” ऊपर कहे गये शेर में Sufism और Mysticism …
Last 25 years of economic reforms have seen the country increasingly embracing the ideal of ‘free enterprise’ and climb down of state machinery from commanding heights to a facilitating and nurturing role. As more and more reforms are taken up, and measures like demonetization, GST and administrative reforms are discussed and debated, their impact in the long run, on lower quin-tiles of the populace would be of the utmost importance. The most profound and vital question for the nation …
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