The Story of Paradigm Shifts

Of Indo-pak visits in the past and their echoes at present

Z.G. Muhammad

Are we a paranoid people- you and me included?  Is it   fear rooted in my mind that makers ponder over something, I would in normal course dismiss as nonevent.  Chairman APHC (M) and four other members of his executives’ council are visiting Pakistan in November.  What More

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Bal goes

The love hate persona of Bal Thackeray

Anil Anand

You love him, you hate him, but you cannot ignore him. That proverbial description more aptly sticks to the departed Shiv Sena chief Mr Bal Keshav Thackeray than to anyone else of either his generation or people younger to him. His followers loved him the most. But much more than that, he was a convenient More

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Fracas over Naipaul

Karnad was right in slamming Naipaul for his views on Islam

Ghulam Mohiuddin Wani

Girish Karnard and Anil Dharkar took their fight to media over the former’s criticism of the Nobel Laureate author V S Naipaul. Certainly Anil Dharkar was within his rights to slam Karnard publicly albeit couched in courteous terms. But Dharkar was naïve and simplistic  when he came to the rescue More

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Thoreau’s message

All about three words simplify, simplify and simplify

Ravi Vyas

Gandhiji clearly shared with Thoreau that each generation must discover the world through its own eyes rather than through the eyes of previous generations. But in rejecting the “dead hand of the past” Thoreau had warned that every indivi dual “be very careful to find out and pursue (Truth and self More

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