Jan 14, 2023
"The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it": Veena and Neuroanatomy - Indian Veena has always been considered as an instrument of the Gods and hence the name ‘Divine instrument,’ a guiding star for the development of Indian Music
The Indian Veena has always been considered as an instrument of the Gods and hence the name ‘Divine instrument’ has been attributed to it. From the earliest times, the Veena has been a guiding star for the development of Indian Music in general. But Carnatic music cherished the Veena and the Yazh as gifts of the gods and through centuries of study and experiment, coaxed out of them a system of music that has no parallel in the whole world.
Jan 14, 2023
"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our history and culture": 'Revolutionaries - The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom'' by Shri Sanjeev Sanyal says History of India’s freedom struggle must be re-written
Sanjeev Sanyal, Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, is not only known as an economist but also as a historian. In his latest book, ‘Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom’, Sanyal outlines the role of the forgotten revolutionaries, who believed in armed resistance and their immense contribution to India’s freedom struggle.
Jan 13, 2023
"We dont function well as human beings when we're in isolation": Kashmir’s isolation set to crumble as countdown for new road & rail links begins, Indian Railway opens nation's longest 'escape tunnel' in Kashmir; know all about Banihal-Katra route project
The Indian railway system is regarded as the foundation and lifeblood of the economy. Indian railways span over thousands of kilometres practically covering the entire nation, making it the fourth largest in the world after the US, China and Russia.
Jan 13, 2023
“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too”: From bamboo sticks to World Cup debut, inspiring story of Indian hockey team's Nilam Sanjeep Xess who is set to make his debut in the upcoming FIH World Cup 2023
Bhubaneswar, Jan 13: Indian men's hockey defender Nilam Sanjeep Xess is all set to make his debut in the upcoming FIH World Cup 2023, while the country celebrates the rising star, his family lives in a kutcha house with stories of poverty to tell.
Jan 13, 2023
"No neutrality, there is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias": Joshimath Sinking - Supreme Court refuses urgent hearing, "there are democratically elected institutions to look into issue & everything of urgency does not have to come to court"
While observing that all issues must not come to it directly, the Supreme Court today agreed to hear the PIL filed on the recent land sinking incidents in Joshimath on January 16.
Jan 11, 2023
“A river seems like a magic thing, moving, living part of the earth itself”: India to gain a huge boost in inland water transportation by launching the world's Longest River Cruise, MV Ganga Vilas, sailing from Varanasi to Dibrugarh across 27 river system
The Ganga Vilas luxury cruise boat reached Ramnagar Port in Varanasi on Tuesday after having left Kolkata on December 22.
Jan 11, 2023
"Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out": Car belonging to Major serving in the India Army set on fire by miscreants, they attacked his car parked in the house after he complained of loud noise blaring from the nearby hotel
LUCKNOW: A group of men, including a hotel staff, its owner and manager, set afire the car of a serving army major for opposing the high decibel music tracks which the accused were playing at the roof of the hotel on Sunday night in Gomtinagar.
Jan 10, 2023
"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread": Pakistan flour crisis worsens; prices skyrocket amidst wheat shortage, Stampedes all across country reported whereas as per Global Hunger Index rank Pakistan: 99 India: 107
The late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto once famously promised to fight a 1,000-year war with India. In the summer of 1990, his daughter Benazir repeated the same call. These were the controversial, and still historically contentious days when Pakistan is believed by many to have sent a nuclear threat, conveyed by the late Sahebzada Yaqub Khan, then foreign minister, to his Indian counterpart Inder Kumar Gujral. Seems the prediction has come true.
Jan 10, 2023
"Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf": Bhindranwale 2.0 - Punjab’s history may repeat itself with the new Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh shooting his mouth off without any fear of action, courtesy the backing of his powerful patrons
In a country where people are arrested for social media posts, it is astonishing that Amritpal Singh should publicly extol the idea of Khalistan, celebrate violence, disparage communities, and lavish praise on Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the militant leader who, along with the Indian state, scarred Punjab in the 1980s. Amritpal’s audacity suggests he enjoys impunity, courtesy the backing of powerful patrons operating incognito.