Sanely Written
Reading Time: 4 minutesUnlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. Karl R. Popper Beneath the towering pines and snow-clad […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn a cold night in Delhi where the concentrated winter fog was doing a better job at keeping the light of an already waning moon away, just before the clock struck ten, the night became determinately darker for India that has received the chilling news of Dr Manmohan Singh’s passing. The nation mourns not just […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor every child prodigy you know, at least 100 potential prodigies have burned out before you even heard of them. Chess prodigies possess a rare combination of talent, intuition, and courage. They achieve thrilling wins but also face setbacks in their journeys, which begin at a young age with intense training. While adult players might […]
Reading Time: 13 minutes“When Babylon was struggling with Nineveh for supremacy, when Tyre was planting her colonies, when Athens was growing in strength, before Rome had become known, or Greece had contended with Persian monarchy, …. She had already risen to greatness, if not glory.” Matthew Atmore Sheering writes about the glorious and the oldest surviving city of […]
Reading Time: 16 minutesIn the heart of the Middle East, there is a nation so small that for some standard maps, its name will not fit inside its boundaries. The title has given away the name of the nation, so let us try and see if we can cough up something else that you can guess. What is […]
Reading Time: 24 minutesWhat cannot be denied, must be justified. This has been the bread and butter for our “renowned historians” when they sit and write, rather fabricate, the history of our country in order to pursue a narrative. The “secular” approach towards history has tried to whitewash a lot of wrongdoings and this line sums it up […]
Reading Time: 19 minutesPost-partition drama- By the time the British left India partitioned, the seed of an identity of qaum was sowed in the Sikhs who majorly inhabited the then state of newly formed Punjab. Punjabi Suba Morcha- Sachar Formula- Jawahar Lal Nehru rejected all ideas of a separate state. On the contrary, he merged Patiala and East […]
Reading Time: 12 minutesPunjab is a land of exuberant celebrations, lush green fields, delectable cuisine, and foot-tapping Bhangra. But there is more. Songs? Yes. Glamorous cars, eye-candy models, luxury brands, white skin colour obsession, a few Pakistani city names, and of course the rightful bashing of the gold-digger girlfriend in the end. While a Punjabi reading this opening […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesअहम् सेतुम् करिष्यामि विस्तीर्णे वरुण आलये | पितुः सामर्थ्यम् आस्थाय तत्त्वम् आह महाउदधिः || २-२२-४७ “The great Ocean disclosed a truth. I will construct a bridge across this large Ocean, taking recourse to the skill and ability of my father.” – Yuddha Kanda, Valmiki Ramayana The fight for Dharma is not easy, and the struggle […]
Reading Time: 16 minutesIt was a no-brainer. There had to be an enquiry into the suspicious air crash of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. But what was thought of as an “enquiry” actually turned out to be a field trip to Japan with some astounding findings which were not even reported. To date, three separate enquiry commissions namely The […]