The Young India

Ananth Venkatesh

The author traces China’s fall to the state of intellectual and administrative disintegration that has now led to its confrontations with India.

• The commonplace Chinese citizens were enmeshed in a civil war for four years subsequent to the culmination of WW 2 in August 1945 after the Japanese surrender.
• Then, the civil strife in China had, as its participants, Communist militias pitted against the anti Communist (Nationalist) militias. Also, millions of the Chinese civilians, who were the members of either the Nationalist or

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Kartikey Sehgal

“kaam chal raha hai, main sapne nahin bata raha hoon”

Narendra Modi, the man with a 12.8 percent agricultural growth in the ‘non-agricultural’ state of Gujarat, who is also the Chief Minister of the state, in a well-delivered speech, has implied the importance to solving teachers’ woes in India and ensuring maximum respect and salary for them in the coming years. (The Speech)

His is an inspiring and a visionary move that aims to being back to the nation Her glory …

Kartikey Sehgal

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Two drunken policemen pointing AK-47′s threatened to march a colleague and me into a shack for “some fun.” We got away untouched, so why bring up the matter? I didn’t want my boss to think that my gender was a liability. (source)

but of course woman, it is. Secularism is your enemy. Righteousness in suggesting, that, all men are essentially good, everywhere, in-all-parts, draws on short-term emotions.
Of morality.
Of goodness.

It draws immediate praise, and certified fan-following; attention—of the …

Ananth Venkatesh

Overview

The recent popular demonstrations against the autocratic governments in the countries of the Islamic world such as Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen are indicative of the profound discontentment and disillusionment that has penetrated the psyche of the ordinary Mohammedans there.

Rationales Contributing To The Political Wobbliness In The Muslim World

1) Lebanese Hezbollah

Hezbollah, which is a Shiite organization, exists politically as well as militarily in the ethnically sundry Lebanon. Hezbollah, which is subsidized as well as armed clandestinely by the …

Ananth Venkatesh

The insurrection of a sizable segment of the Libyan populace against the Libyan autocrat, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, is a continuation of the popular mutinies that have characterized the Mohammedan world recently.

The civil strife is anchored in tribalism as the Colonel’s tyranny has spawned loads of loathing for his tribe. The demonstrators on the Libyan lanes predominantly belong to the opposing tribes of Libya that desire to witness the dethronement of the Colonel and his tribe.

It is strongly possible that the demonstrators …

Kartikey Sehgal

The writer interprets writer Arundhati Roy’s interview by journalist Amitava Kumar as propaganda, and, not journalism.

What is it about Roy that so irks the Indian middle-class and elite? Is it the fact that she has no truck with the sober, scholarly, Brahmanical discourse of the respectable middle-of-the-road protectors of the status-quo?

-Amitava Kumar while interviewing Arundhati Roy (The Un-Victim)

I am not going to define Brahmanical Discourse for you. It’s not defined even in Amitava Kumar’s interview.

Amitava Kumar’s interview with Arundhati …