Opinion

HOW RSS DENIGRATED THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION: A PEEP INTO ITS ARCHIVES The Constituent Assembly of India finalized the Constitution of India on November 26, 1949 which is celebrated as the CONSTITUTION DAY. This Constitution promised new born Indian Republic a polity based on democracy, justice, egalitarianism and rule of law. …

By Dr Seema Javed The COP26 climate conference in Glasgow with the last minute Glasgow Pact rushed through after several rounds of iterations. The verdict across the room at the closing plenary- imperfect, uncomfortable, disappointing, imbalanced but still some progress in the spirit of compromise conveyed the gap between action …

An aggressive campaign to rehabilitate VD Savarkar (1883-1966) as great Indian freedom fighters is under way. He is being touted as a legendary Indian nationalist, freedom fighter who spent 50 years in the Cellular Jail [CJ]. Multiple mercy petitions of his are hailed as a ruse to secure freedom in …

Nehru’s thoughts Best Quotes By Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru In English ~ Thoughts of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru “Aother and a major excitement had seized me, and I was again on a great voyage of discovery and the land of India…lay spread out before me. India with all her infinite …

Many people, particularly those belonging to the right-wing schools of thought including Sangh Parivar describe Jawahar Lal Nehru as the main culprit for the division of India because he wanted to become Prime Minister of independent India. This is far from truth. The fact is that many stalwarts including Sardar …

Jag Mohan Thaken Chandigarh The central Home Ministry on October 11, 2021, issued notification regarding the amendment in BSF Act to authorize the Border Security Force to undertake search, seizure and arrest within an extended area of 50 km stretch, instead of the previous 15 km, from the international border …

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Most of the manustream media had declared Rahul Gandhi as Pappu as if it is a crime if somebody is called Pappu. The narrative spread by Sangh Parivar went unresponded by the senior leaders of Congress Party and today when the same Pappu is trying to …

By Deepanshu Kaul Philip, Head (Strategy & Operations), SolConnect Solar energy is touted as one of the solutions to meet humankind’s rising energy demand while keeping global warming led temperature rise at bay. India has spearheaded this cause by giving shape to the International Solar Alliance in 2015. Our commitment …

Swami Vivekananda was a revolutionary thinker and out-of-the-box educationist who dared to discard the education system of his times and proposed to replace it with an encompassing student-centric harmonious model towards a unifying society which is just and equitable to all. He dreamt of a scheme of education which caters …

Naseeruddin Shah: Javed Akhtar and Comments on Taliban By Dr Ram Puniyani With the Taliban coming to power in Afghanistan, the memories of horror stories of yesteryears have been rekindled. When in power they not only implemented their version of Sharia law but also undertook the horrifying oppression of women. …

“Any society that fails to harness the energy and creativity of its women is at a huge disadvantage” [Quote by Tian Wei] Since childhood, parents impose a lot of restrictions on a girl compared to a boy. The upbringing of girls in India is done in a very protective environment …

I entirely agree with the Allahabad High Court: cow should be made our national animal. Allahabad HC judge to Centre: Make cow national animal https://www.thelallantop.com/news/cow-should-be-declared-national-animal-protecting-cow-is-not-the-work-of-any-one-religion-says-allahabad-high-court  In fact, I go further. Our government, and in fact all governments throughout the world, should be handed over to cows since we humans have …

Growing up in India as a girl is not easy, as per the gender inequality index 2021 we rank 140th out of 156 nations. The gender gap in India has widened to 62.5% majorly due to inadequate representation of women in labour force participation, income inequality, and most importantly female …

Gail Omvedt is no more. She passed away today i.e. 25th August, 202 1 in Kasegaon. On August 18th, I went to see her along with my dear friend Rahul Nirmal. Her condition was deteriorating and her partner Mr Bharat Patankar was doing everything to serve her at their ancestral …

The great Afghan woman martyr, Meena (1956-1987) founded the REVOLUTIONARY ASSOCIATION OF THE WOMEN OF AFGHANISTAN (RAWA) in 1977. She was assassinated by the hired goons of KHAD (Afghanistan branch of KGB) and their fundamentalist accomplices in Quetta, Pakistan, on February 4, 1987. RAWA resolutely fought for the rights of …

Secularism has to be a two way traffic When I criticised the BJP for polarising society and atrocities against Muslims, when I called most Hindus stupid for calling cow gomata ( since an animal cannot be a mother of a human being ) and for looking down on dalits, and …

If the goal is to protect the environment from automobile pollution, improve road safety, and end disparities in society, then vehicle scrappage policy is not likely to deliver on these tall promises. Rather such a policy could be counter-productive if we look closely at the aforementioned goals. Such a policy …

Partition and Partition Horrors Partition of India: one of the major tragedies of the twentieth Century World By Dr Ram Puniyani India’s partition has been one of the major tragedies of the twentieth Century World. The loss of lives and the mass migrations have very few equivalent tragedies in the …

India is much older than 75 years and hence its leaders need to speak the language of maturity and reasoning. Unfortunately, the prime minister and his government are least bothered about governance and more about elections. To declare August 14th as the ‘remembering the horror of partition day‘ is nothing …

Musings on 75th year of our Independence By Dr Ram Puniyani With India getting freedom from colonial rule, the first Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru summed up the aspirations and dreams of the leaders and participants in the movement in his famous and apt speech “Tryst with Destiny”. He stated, “The …