American poet Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”—“Do I contradict myself/ Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes”—seems tailor-made for India. Which country can India be compared to, in economic terms? Is India’s level of economic development more or less like Vietnam’s, because their per capita incomes,Continue Reading
Kerala tribals’ stand up stir has completed five monthsContinue Reading
Emboldened individual Hindu activists “could be testing the waters, testing precedent, testing the limits of the politically possible”Continue Reading
The Haryana sisters from Rohtak have said more eloquently what the society at large needed today. The actions of these girls from the hinterland have spoken louder than any words could have. The President’s medal for bravery which will be conferred on them on the occasion of Republic Day nextContinue Reading
Isn’t self-discipline integral to both sanitation and progress?Continue Reading
It is normal that all of us get used to things that we do routinely. We begin to do things automatically without even taking note of things, because we take things for granted that they would not change. That is how we could very easily become machines, and may loseContinue Reading
