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The ideological basis of Gandhi’s fasts
January 13, is the 77th. anniversary of Gandhi’s last fast which was aimed at restoring Hindi-Muslim amity in riot-torn Mehrauli near Delhi
P. Jayachandran packed every song with tenderness
The late singer’s enviable voice carved a niche in Malayalam and South Indian music, captivating listeners worldwide
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits Maldives after Maldivian Ministers visited India
Male, January 10: Both Beijing and New Delhi are wooing Maldives because of its strategic importance and Maldives is hoping to reap benefits by cultivating the two geopolitical rivals. Close on the heels of visits to India by the Maldivian Foreign and Defence Ministers to...
Curtain raiser on Lankan President’s visit to China
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will visit China, his first since coming to power, next week By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Colombo, January 10: On the eve of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s official visit to China next week, the Government officially put the record straight...
Maldivian ministers’ visits to India comprehensively strengthen bilateral ties
Defence Minister Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon and Foreign Minister Abdulla Khaleel reached wide-ranging agreements with India during their back to back visit to New Delhi. By Gulbin Sultana New Delhi, January 9 (South Asian Affairs): Maldivian Defence Minister Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon is on a three-day...
Was Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism political or spiritual?
Critics say that his conversion was not spiritual but political. But to Harvard University’s Christopher Queen it was an amalgam of both and that, for valid reasons. By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 7: 18: The father of the Indian constitution and the unquestioned leader of the...
Bangladeshi Islam is rooted in the soil
Bangladesh, which was “East Bengal” earlier, became a Muslim-majority area by a peaceful and gradual process from the Sixteenth Century onwards without alienating the indigenous culture. By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 7: Bangladesh, which was “East Bengal” earlier, became a Muslim-majority area by a peaceful and gradual...
Flexibility marked the Hindu caste order in Buddha’s time
It was much later than the Vedic rigidities gained currency By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 7: In Buddha’s time (Sixth-Fifth Century BC) flexibility marked the Hindu caste order and it was much later that the Vedic rigidities associated with caste gained currency, says Dr. Thomas William Rhys...
Tipu Sultan: an Indian freedom fighter reviled by both British rulers and Hindu nationalists
Hindu nationalists and Hindutva historians are presently on a campaign to remove him from the pantheon of Indian freedom fighters By P. K. Balachandran Colombo, January 7: The Indian freedom fighter Tipu Sultan (1751-1799) is glowingly described by his admirers as the “Tiger of Mysore”...
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