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Karna’s Wife: The Outcast’s Queen is a Tribute to a Great Warrior
In our area, there is an unwritten prohibition for not keeping the book Mahabharat in the home. The popular belief is that who keep Mahabharat in their house, they unwittingly invite quarrels and struggles in their own families. Superstition has no logic. So, people read it in bits and pieces. My acquaintance of Mahabharat was…
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O, Christ! Forgive Justice Banumathi for Attributing Her Rise to Only Your Grace
Justice R Banumathi, who retired today as the Judge of the Supreme Court thanked Jesus Christ more than once in her farewell speech organized by the Supreme Court Bar Association for making her what she is. It was uncalled for her to have uttered that ‘though she is a Hindu, she believes in the gospel…
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Three Cs (Communism, Christianity and China) are Causing Rift Between Nepal and India
It is cliché to say that the Nepal-India relationship is very old. In fact, it is inseparable, and the credit goes to the people of both countries. If something turns wrong between India and Nepal, the palpitation of the hearts of the people on both sides automatically go up. Sometimes misunderstandings develop and then the…
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Hindi Must be Declared the State Language of J& K and Ladakh
There is an almost an outcry from Jammu and Ladakh regions to declare Hindi as the State language. There is some opposition, of course, from the valley and the reason is obvious but that is totally misplaced. Hindi is compulsorily taught in all schools across all three regions. The dialects that are spoken in Jammu,…
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Devil cannot Quote Scriptures, Vinay Dube Must be Sternly Dealt with
You cannot expect the security forces, including the police, to wear the ‘rule of law’ on its sleeve to deal with such criminals, who care two hoots for the law and other human beings. Therefore, Yogi Adityanath government is fully justified in razing the house of that notorious outlaw Vinay Dube so as to nab…
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Supreme Court’s Order on Rath Yatra was an Avoidable Overreach
It is a welcome that the Supreme Court of India has reviewed its decision of 18th June wherein it banned the Jagannath Rath Yatra (chariot procession festival) at Puri, which started from today. Jagannath Rat Yatra is attached to the sentiments and faiths of millions of people, then why the permission for symbolic Yatra, as…
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Nascent Virtual Courts must Evolve to Maturity
Virtual Courts and E filings of the cases have, without doubt, come to stay even after the COVID-19. As history is known by the AD and the BC, similarly the Google has also become a watershed in many areas. Google has completely changed the method of education, the research and the journalism etc., One belongs…
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It’s Time that Hindi Got Honour in the High Courts and the Supreme Court
A few days back a petition was filed in the Supreme Court against the 11th May notification of the Government of Haryana which said that Hindi should be used in all Courts and Tribunals of the state. To the great relief of the people, the Supreme Court junked the petition. Dismissing the Petition, a bench…
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Virtual Courts may not be the Substitute to Physical Courts, but They have Come to Stay
The more we get aged, the more diffident we become in adopting the new technology or anything new because our mental blocks often come into the play. This is what we find in the functioning of the courts as most of the judges and the lawyers have been pursuing a set pattern of filing, removing…
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China’s Game to drive Wedge Between India and Nepal Must be Defeated
Pandit Arjun Prasad Bastola, a Sanskrit and Vedic scholar, who is also on the Board of Pashupatinath temple is a well-wisher of India. He once told me that relationship between India and Nepal is like warp and woof from time immemorial and that cannot be separated. Two of the most sacred shrines, Pashupatinath and Vaikunthdham…