Against the setting November sun of 1963, a streak of dense vapour pierced through the coconut tree-lined silhouette of the Thumba seashore in Kerala.
In an exclusive interview to Swarajya, the economist, historian, and Rajya Sabha MP Dr Subramanian Swamy talks about his Harvard days and what prompted his return to India.
Distinguished filmmaker and now author Vivek Agnihotri is in the limelight because of his new book, Urban Naxals.
In the book, Agnihotri writes about his journey in making the film Buddha in a Traffic Jam, which exposed the nexus between an India-wide Maoist terror movement and their supporters in urban centres such as the academia and media.
It is not that we do not understand Ambedkar; it is that we fear him.
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, senior fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Anand Ranganathan, scientist and author spoke with the Minister of Defence, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman for Swarajya Conversations. From the Nirav Modi scandal to the capital expenditure of the military, to the Rafale deal, to India’s nuclear doctrine and the BJP’s chances in the 2019 elections, Ms Sitharaman spoke on all of that and more.
The euphoria on one hand, and anguish on the other, with which the result of the Gorakhpur bypoll has been received by the Indian commentariat, is proof if any was needed, that investment in elections goes much beyond the one made by the politicians who are fighting it.
While the individual man is an insolvable puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
You are saying this now. But what about the fact that you said the exact opposite yesterday?
SnapshotThe gleaners spread around, and here and there,
Spike after spike, their sparing harvest pick.
The story of Upendranath Brahmachari is the story of a forgotten man, remembered only when a street in Kolkata that bears his name shows up on Google Maps.