https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/my-name-is-india-and-i-deny-my-own-past/September 6, 2021, 5:40 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Webp.net-resizeimage.jpgIndiaWhile there’s a section of people in India readily denying their own past, there are others whose idea of history has been corrupted by colonialism. It’s a tough civilisational battle ahead. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-incredible-flight-of-indias-parachute-man/September 3, 2021, 2:47 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ddd503a7_4538_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersHarsh Mariwala, founder and chairman of Marico and author of ‘Harsh Realities: The Making of Marico’, opens up about the challenges he faced in his entrepreneurial journey and much more.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/attacking-hinduism-in-hindutvas-name/August 24, 2021, 4:41 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/e3390c8f_4299_P_3_mr-1.jpgIndiaWhy an event like ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’, co-sponsored by over 40 US universities led by Columbia, Princeton, Berkeley and Harvard, invariably targets Hinduism, of course in the name of Hindutva, which is nothing but an excuse.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/bidens-faustian-bargain-with-smart-media-savvy-taliban/August 18, 2021, 2:31 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/c9e02331_4156_P_3_mr-1.jpgIndiaUS President Joe Biden might have bought a short-term reprieve for a long-term humiliation. It’s a Faustian bargain of the scale that was last seen in 1938 when then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had signed a pact with Hitler to face ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/the-great-american-art-of-losing-war-in-afghanistan/August 12, 2021, 10:20 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/6ec2c949_4023_P_1_mr-1.jpgIndiaPresident Ashraf Ghani seems to be waging a lonely battle. One hopes it’s not for a losing cause. For, any loss democratic Afghanistan suffers today, its repercussions will be faced by other world capitals sooner than later. More so America’s!https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/gujarat-high-court-takes-right-step-time-for-supreme-reform/July 23, 2021, 5:44 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Gujarat-High-Court-1.jpgIndiaThe judiciary has come a long way from the time a judge would not be elevated to a higher court just because he attended the funeral of an RSS leader. Over the decades, it has seen several big reforms. The Gujarat HC’s decision to start live strea...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/nehru-northeast-and-not-so-splendid-isolation/July 16, 2021, 3:53 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/e1763145_3438_P_1_mr-1.jpgIndiaIn the last seven years, the Modi dispensation has made sincere efforts to pull the Northeast out of its ‘splendid isolation’, which was, as eminent socialist Ram Manohar Lohia would say, treating the people of the region like the Gir lions.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/my-name-is-india-and-i-deny-my-own-past/September 6, 2021, 5:40 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Webp.net-resizeimage.jpgIndiaWhen India decided to pull out around 50 diplomats and security personnel from its consulate in Kandahar in Afghanistan on Saturday, in view of the Taliban gaining ground in new areas around the southern Afghan city, India once again found itself ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/lakshadweep-needs-progress-not-protest/July 6, 2021, 2:20 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/d565c011_3323_P_4_mr-1.jpgIndiaThe agitation, currently being waged in the name of ecology, seems politically and communally motivated.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/my-name-is-india-and-i-deny-my-own-past/September 6, 2021, 5:40 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Webp.net-resizeimage.jpgIndiaAs President Xi Jinping was addressing the centenary celebrations of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, where he called for building a strong military to defend the country and integrating Taiwan with the Chines...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/my-name-is-india-and-i-deny-my-own-past/September 6, 2021, 5:40 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Webp.net-resizeimage.jpgIndiaThe Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is all set to celebrate its 100th anniversary on 1 July. Chinese President and CCP general secretary Xi Jinping is leaving no stone unturned to make it an “epochal event”, with the twin objectives of putting China...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/my-name-is-india-and-i-deny-my-own-past/September 6, 2021, 5:40 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Webp.net-resizeimage.jpgIndiaPakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is a perfect manifestation of what’s wrong with his country today. A leader who was in his youth known as much for his cricketing exploits on field as for off-the-field glamorous lifestyle, is today the brand amb...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/we-indians-are-a-rebellious-race-so-dharma-works-for-us-amish/January 15, 2021, 2:29 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Book-beat-15-1.jpgOthersAmish and Bhavna Roy talk about their new book, decoding the epics to help us lead a meaningful life, and how dharmic religions treat human beings like adults.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/shashi-tharoor-gets-it-wrong-again/December 18, 2020, 4:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/95a1dde4_1020_P_9_mr-2.jpgOthersAuthor Shashi Tharoor makes a wonderful edifice of arguments to begin with, but ends up destroying the superstructure of ideas when the politician in him takes precedence over the intellectual he has always been.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/bjps-original-jodi-no-1/December 4, 2020, 9:27 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/6ec80300_863_P_1_mr-1.jpgOthersThe author does well to dive deep into the lives of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani, who shaped India’s politics in the post-liberalisation era, directly and indirectly, to a great extent. But were the two as different as they are made out to...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/princely-states-and-britains-diabolical-design-to-keep-a-bit-of-india/November 13, 2020, 7:38 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Book-lead.jpgOthersSandeep Bamzai’s latest book reveals Winston Churchill’s sinister plan to Balkanise India, and the role played by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru to stop that from happening. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/why-arun-shourie-wants-you-to-prepare-for-death/November 6, 2020, 4:38 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/222.jpgOthersNoted economist, journalist, author and former Union minister talks about biding his time in a ‘crowded departure lounge’ as he sees friends leaving for the next world. In an interview, he speaks of his latest book and how some of our greatest men...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/searching-for-a-hero-lost-in-translation/October 30, 2020, 6:20 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Dutt.jpgOthersBibek Debroy’s ‘Manmatha Nath Dutt’ is a fascinating—but equally intriguing—saga of one of India’s foremost translators who has been forgotten and almost lost. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/modi-never-parried-questions-sanjeev-bhats-claims-untenable-2002-probe-chief/October 27, 2020, 6:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Modi.jpgOthers‘There were efforts to dislodge me from the SIT because I was politically inconvenient to those who were in great danger of being permanently eliminated from the Indian polity,’ writes R.K. Raghavan in his memoirs. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/the-real-modi-and-the-fallacy-of-liberalism/October 2, 2020, 5:49 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/pm.pngOthersThis is a must-read book for anyone willing to understand the phenomenon called Narendra Modi. It will help unravel some of the enigmas surrounding him, and also explain why he did what he did both as Gujarat CM and later as Prime Minister.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/when-china-talks-of-peace-india-must-prepare-for-war/September 30, 2020, 4:38 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Army.jpgIndiaBefore waging a war, Dragon often invokes peace. It used the same tactic to convince Nehru to send food for the invading PLA troops in Tibet who, as new evidences suggest, used their presence there to prepare for the 1962 war against India.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/my-name-is-india-and-i-deny-my-own-past/September 6, 2021, 5:40 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Webp.net-resizeimage.jpgIndiaUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath caused a lot of heartburn last week when he asked, “How can our heroes be the Mughals?” It suddenly woke up a lot of “public intellectuals”, currently in the retreat, out of their slumber. They saw it a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/my-name-is-india-and-i-deny-my-own-past/September 6, 2021, 5:40 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Webp.net-resizeimage.jpgIndiaIndia always had love-hate relations with America. Not very long ago, if one admired the United States, they would find themselves being cornered on the high table, especially among intellectuals. Words like neocolonialism, Cuba and Vietnam would ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/pranab-mukherjee-the-man-who-knew-too-much/September 1, 2020, 4:26 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/pranabh1.jpgIndiaMukherjee suffered politically for knowing ‘too much’. Rajiv Gandhi dropped him from his Cabinet in 1986. Narasimha Rao didn’t include him in his own in 1991. Sonia Gandhi didn’t make him the PM in 2004.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/novelist-who-rose-from-the-dead/August 28, 2020, 4:13 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/book1.pngOthersTamil novelist Perumal Murugan says he is a changed man after he met raucous protests following the publication of his novel, One Part Woman. ‘I am now a more cautious and measured writer,’ he tells Utpal Kumar.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/raja-rao-and-his-idea-of-india/August 21, 2020, 4:12 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/raja-lead.jpgOthersFor Raja Rao, India is not just a desa, a geography. It is a darsana, a way of India looking at the world. Yet, this never stopped him from actively participating in the country’s freedom struggle, Prof Makarand Paranjape tells Utpal Kumar.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/indian-pms-and-the-art-of-not-learning-from-the-past/July 24, 2020, 6:56 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/daily.pngOthersRajiv Dogra’s new book takes a deep, perceptive look at the role played by Prime Ministers in shaping India’s foreign affairs. The author, however, could have written more on the maverick P.V. Narasimha Rao, says Utpal Kumar.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/suheldev-the-hero-we-chose-to-forget/July 17, 2020, 5:41 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/book-1.pngOthersAmish rescues Suheldev from the scrapped pages of history. But there are many more such heroes waiting to be rescued from the tyranny of selective historiography in India, writes Utpal Kumar.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/akbar-may-have-been-great-but-why-just-single-him-out/July 3, 2020, 5:33 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/booj-300x169.jpgOthersIra Mukhoty’s ‘Akbar: The Great Mughal’ is an engaging, endearing book, definitely much better than what the title suggests, writes Utpal Kumar.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/my-name-is-india-and-i-deny-my-own-past/September 6, 2021, 5:40 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Webp.net-resizeimage.jpgIndiaA couple of days after US President D o n a l d Tr u m p had on Thursday said that the World Health Organization (WHO) should be “ashamed” of itself for behaving like a public relations agency for China, the world’s top health body praised China f...