हादसा (Accident) १९७५ में रची प्रो० महेन्द्र प्रताप की कविता जो आपातकाल में प्रतिबन्धित रही। संग्रह “दहन ” से। English translation Accident (from “The Burning”) Two months ago The country was…
AAP survey shows leadership still trusted but little else
Sankrant.org surveyed AAP core volunteers, included people that were AAP candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. The results showed disappointment at the election results and uncertainty about the party’s future direction. However,…
India as a dharma society and the rule of law
[The way forward is not about going back to some hypothetical golden age or denying that we have real problems to solve today. But our problems appear unsolvable because we have failed…
The secular rapes of Badaun
There is a danger in turning incidental criminal acts into grand narratives about society. The New York Times made this point in cautioning against creating broad narratives of society based on the misogynistic murders…
Varanasi should showcase timeless India, not flyover modernity
I recently read a news report which said that planning for Varanasi’s development is in high gear. This is welcome news. One of the highlights being touted is a scheme for ‘sixty…
Dead Peoples Tell No Tales
Locating Doniger in the discourse of power “I set out to grasp the mechanisms of the effective exercise of power; and I do this because those who are inserted in these relations…
NSA surveillance of BJP: Is Rahul Gandhi to blame?
[Instead of pushing India’s national security agenda, when even the US is sensitised to it given the egregious nature of the Mumbai attacks, Rahul deflects the US ambassador away from the LeT…
The English Class System
Is English medium education a contributor to India’s economic progress or does it hold India back?
Nation of Entrepreneurs
WE are a nation of entrepreneurs. It may have been
hard to tell this in the days before the economic
liberalization of the 1990s and the time of the
license raj, but entrepreneurs existed even then. They were the
vendors you can still find in country buses, peddling little plastic
knickknacks and bottles of cure-all powders. You can find them
on street pavements. And you can find them in rural settings—
the craftsmen, the farmer, the traders—all managing their
businesses without relying on salaries or handouts.
A Spiritual Entrepreneur
By Sankrant Sanu. Art of Living is a spiritual foundation. Started from scratch by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar about 25 years ago, it now has a presence in over 140 countries, with…