I was talking to a friend about a book I am reading which gives the account of a key campaign during the 19th-century Anglo-Maratha wars from a non-ethnocentric, and hence, a fresh perspective.
In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.
An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:
They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.
In other news, 'Goli maro salon ko' has been declared non-offensive by their honours even as Umar Khalid rots in jail for 2,055 days for calling for Gandhian resistance. #NewIndia
Today the Bombay High Court granted bail to Sharad Kalaskar, convicted in the murder of Narendra Dabholkar.
Dr Dabholkar was the leading face of Maharashtra’s rationalist movement & also the first in a series of four assassinations.
1. Dabholkar,
2. Comrade Govind Pansare,
3.M.
Has anyone read the speech Umar Khalid gave, in which he called for Gandhian resistance, and based on which he has been in jail without bail for over 2,000 days and counting? Because I have.
Not an offence: Supreme Court dismisses case against Anurag Thakur over 'goli maaro saalon ko' speech
https://www.barandbench.com/news/not-an-offence-supreme-court-dismisses-case-against-anurag-thakur-over-goli-maaro-saalon-ko-speech
The last refuge of the scoundrel.
Man goes to America.
Does PhD. Stays back. Gets job. Starts family. Starts business. Builds fortune. In that order.
Years pass. All well. All perfect. Until not anymore.
Problems in marriage. On the verge. Desperate to separate. Only one hurdle.
California is a “community
You are wrong @darab_farooqui
They didn't destroy minds. The destroyed minds put them in power. Modi isn't responsible for the hatred. He is a product of it.
India is reaching a point where if you try to talk sense, people will abuse you, threaten you and virtually lynch you in the streets.
And that is one of the greatest achievements of Modi and the RSS.
They didn't just destroy institutions. They destroyed minds.
