The Young India

Santa Singh

(On Amitabh Bachchan being hounded by a political party
Read: One, Two)

Hello ____ (insert your name here). How are you. Come, we will now embrace. Say (I wink), the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world eh?

(You look blank)…uh of course… Earth laughs in flowers. Heh heh heh…

Which flower?

Um… sorry?

Which flower does the earth laugh in.

Oh it’s a quote by Emerson.

(I shout) No WHICH flower does the earth laugh in.

Ummm… any flower… …

Kartikey Sehgal

If you want to have a clear picture of the events,… then you may watch these videos instead of relying on the contents of the traditional media that holds the ongoing Indian Premiere League as more important than the ongoing riots.

The participating minority community has not endeared itself to the nation by indulging in riots at Karnataka and Bareilly. The media has been relatively silent on the riots till now—apparently to not blow it into a national issue—but the shopkeepers and bylane …

Ananth Venkatesh

Secularism is a laudable concept that has been constitutionalised in several countries of the world. France and Turkey are two examples of nations that come to mind. They have an intransigently secular constitution that is vehemently opposed to the infiltration of religion into the affairs of the state.

The Turkish military remains a bastion of obdurate secularism that feels threatened by the Islamist personality of the party that is currently guiding the country. However, it would be prudent to mention that the Justice …

Kartikey Sehgal

(Secularism implies no religious prejudice)

A short introduction about the condition of secularism–no party is ‘secular’–followed by responses to comments on the story It is Okay to Not Vote.

Introduction: The Present

In 1984, Congress was involved in the murder of Sikhs after the killing of Indira Gandhi.
More than twenty years later, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from the Congress party apologised to the Sikhs and the nation for the acts of the Congress.

In 2002, BJP was involved in the murder of Muslims. BJP’s Atal Behari Vajpayee and L K Advani apologised for the “blot” on the nation.