Dr. Ambedkar's birth anniversary celebrated across Greater Van...

Caste system has ruined India in general and Hinduism in particular. Many people converted from Hinduism to Islam or Christianity to escape the atrocities of the caste system. Manu laid down the caste system based on the division of labour. He ...

Countercurrents.org I am prepared to pick and choose from everyone, socialists, Communists or other. I do not claim infallibility and as Buddha says there is nothing infallible, there is nothing final and everything is liable to examination : Dr ...

Countercurrents.org The legend of some of the kings continues in different forms and is used by different political formations. These political formations draw their identity from the past and project it on the present. These sectarian streams have ...

A variety of activities is in the offing to commemorate Swami Vivekananda's immense contribution to the making of India as a nation. The occasion: the 150th birth anniversary of Swamiji. Seminars, workshops, publications and such other means to ...

New Delhi : Like any other Hindu festival, Navratri has a spiritual message for its observers. The festival signifies power, wealth, prosperity and knowledge. Nava means “nine” and “ratri” means night. During the nine-night long ...

and why this review does not exist A few days after we had blessed ourselves with readings of Rahul Pandita's account of his life and times and the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley, a few of us Mleccha friends had a discussion on the book.

The writer has posted comments on this article TNN | Apr 2, 2013, 01.17 AM IST RELATED BHUBANESWAR : The ballet of ' DandiMahabharata ', a version of the great epic written by ShudraMuniSarala Das, was presented in MayurbhanjChhau style at ...

The Census Commissioner has released a new report showing that 64 million people, representing one in six urban residents, live in slums with unsanitary conditions "unfit for human habilitation." This has caused much moaning and groaning. But ...

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