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Saga of The East India Company: From Trade to Empire
Review of the Book ‘The Anarchy’ by Parmanand Pandey The history of India during the Mughal and the British Rule had been the history of loot, plunder, rape, rapine, murder, mass killings, brutality and bestiality. It was more horrible during the British rule which, came with East India Company. Millions of people were allowed to…
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Book in the Glory of Goddess Called Cow
There are three inanimate and most revered ingredients of Hinduism and they are the Gai (Cow), the Ganga, and Gayatri. The importance of all three has been described in the Hindu scriptures. While the Gai and Ganga are worshipped in the mundane form and Gayatri mantra serves as the means of spiritual exaltation. Hinduism is…
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Sri Lanka-India ties must be strengthened for mutual benefits
Sri Lanka is an island which is surrounded by the Arabian Sea in the west, Way of Bengal in the east, the Indian Ocean in the south and the Palk Strait in the north was once the part of the Indian subcontinent. It is separated by a narrow and a very shallow sea of just…
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Fali Nariman Laments at the Supreme Court
The new book of Fali S. Nariman ‘God Save the Hon’ble Supreme Court’, is full of lively anecdotes and tit-bits that make it a good reading but those who expect to get any philosophy, jurisprudence and guidance ‘what ought to be in the field of law’ would be highly disappointed. F.S. Nariman has seven decades…
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Credibility of Journalism Cannot be Frittered Away
Credibility is the soul of journalism. Crisis of credibility is bound to put journalism in great peril. The journalism in India, as elsewhere, is undergoing metamorphosis, thanks mainly to the explosion of social, digital and electronic media. Recently two cases relating to freedom of speech and expression and personal liberty of individuals have come up…
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Supreme Court Upholds Reservations in Promotions
Supreme Court, as they say, is ‘Supreme’ not because it is infallible but because it is ‘final’. However, in a number of cases, we find that more confusion than clarity has been created by the Supreme Court. Be it regarding the management quota in the or even reservations in the government jobs. On the issue…
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Freedom of Media: A sacrosanct and Cherished Right
Freedom of speech and expression is a sacrosanct fundamental right of every India, and it cannot be compromised under any circumstances. It can, however, be restricted only in the cases as enumerated in the Constitution of India. This has again been reaffirmed by the recent Supreme Court judgement in ‘Yashwant Sinha and others vs Central…
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Pension is Deferred Wage, not a Charity
The pension of the private sector employees will shoot up under the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS), thanks to a Supreme Court ruling which has dismissed a Special Leave Petition filed by Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) against the judgement of the Kerala High Court. The High Court had asked the retirement fund body to…
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Media has Failed to Put Forth the Transformational Changes in India
The amount of work that Narendra Modi has done in the last five years is mind-boggling and unimaginable for any government to do in country and population of this size. It will take years for the researchers to properly comprehend and evaluate it. Almost every household in the country has now got toilet facilities, which…
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Hundreds of Hindu Women are Converted to Islam Every Year in Pakistan
Famous Pakistani journalist Khaled Ahmed, who is a consulting editor of News Week Pakistan has recently written a very touching story about the abduction, forceful conversion of two Hindu girls, Reena (14) and Raveena (16) and their marriages with two semi-literate Muslim boys in Sindh. However, it has failed to evoke any significant response in…