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Feb 12, 2009

Tryst with Destiny

[caption id="attachment_235" align="alignright" width="600" caption="Freedom at Midnight"][/caption] Sixty-two years have passed since in...

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Feb 05, 2009

Indian Culture and Moral Policing

Who is going to define morality? What is right and what is wrong? These are very subjective and open questions and depend upon the percep...

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Jan 31, 2009

Diversity and Cross-cultural Sensitivity

I don't want to use the divisive terms - North Indian and South Indian, but want to say something that will involve these, so please don'...

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Jan 31, 2009

India - Sense of Belonging and Participation among Masses

It is true that sense of belongingness lacks in India. We take freedom and democracy for granted and live like feuds. We, in India, are...

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Jan 30, 2009

Gandhi and his view on Religion and Politics

As per Gandhiji, Religion is a moral order and different Religions are sets of belief systems and rituals. This is the reason he advocate...

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Jan 24, 2009

Gandhi and My Irony

[caption id="attachment_99" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mahatma Gandhi"][/caption] Condemning Gandhi has become a fashion thes...

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Jan 19, 2009

A Take Towards Our Failures

In India, we are growing, despite all odds against us. We have a society which is so varied in culture and is linguistically diverse, bes...

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Oct 29, 2008

United Nations Security Council - Reforms

At present UN Security Council comprises of 5 permanent members and 10 elected members. Of these former 5 have power to 'Veto' while latt...

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