Market economy? or, market society? S Gurumurthy The ongoing debate on the FDI in retail is intolerably superficial at times. For a rational debate, the fundamentals of conflicting alternatives must be understood. Here are some basic truths about conventional Indian retail. For thousands of years, retailing in India has […]
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COMMUNAL VIOLENCE BILL- THREAT TO NATIONAL INTEGRATION, SOCIAL HARMONY AND CONSTITUTIONAL FEDERALISM by RAM MADHAV What is interesting and important to note is that these two statements, the Muslim and the Christian, come at around the same time as though they were premeditated. Simultaneously the so-called civil society, a euphemism […]
This is an old technique of our pseudo-intellectuals. Attack and abuse.. but never engage in a debate or discussion over the issues raised or the arguments made. Sesham Kopena Poorayet…. goes an old adage. What remains when you run out of arguments is anger and abuse. What Dr. Subramanian Swamy […]
KNOW YOUR TERRORIST All indications are that this Mumbai blast too would end up at the bottom of the list of countless such attacks in the past, which have not seen the conclusion of the investigation and punishment to the perpetrators. There have been many in the last one […]
Indeed a shocking, daring robbery. A telecom central minister from TamilNadu got the BSNL to connect 323 telephone lines to his home, not in Delhiwhere he had work, but in Chennai where he had none. He got all the 323home lines listed not in his name but in the name […]
Pak did Samjhauta… probe them, Rahul Gandhi, Digvijaya’ Vandita Mishra Jan 18, 2011 Indresh Kumar began going to the RSS shakha when he was 10; he is seen as one of its most influential office-bearers today. He is a member of the RSS’s national executive and founder-mentor to several RSS-supported […]
But on one of the shiniest days in the history of free India our media pundits plumbed the depths of trivia My judgment is short, very short,” writes a relieved and happy Justice SU Khan, who delivered the Ayodhya verdict along with Justices S Agarwal and DV Sharma. But that […]
Thanjavur : The Brihadisvara temple in Thanjavur, the most important amongthe hundreds of temples built by the Chola emperors, has reached amilestone: a thousand years of existence.The temple was commissioned by Rajaraja Chola, the emperor who oversaw theSecond Golden Era of Tamil Nadu. By then, he had already conquered theother […]
In India, a secular country where there is no shortage of pseudosecularists, Hindus and Hindu Organisations are generally presumed guilty unless they prove their innocence. Intentionally created recent sensationalism of Hindu terrorism amounts to witch hunting. It seems that these efforts are intended to tarnish the image of the RSS […]
Kanchan Gupta – Daily Pioneer Interviewing prospective students for a media school can be a useful experience. It provides you with an insight into how media is perceived among the young who shall inherit the world from us. I usually begin by asking the applicants whether they want to pursue […]