As the dust of politics settles down on statements made by a state-level senior leader on Raja Rammohun Roy - saying that Roy was a ‘British agent’ who started a vicious cycle of religious conversion ~ it is time to note where the leader had ‘slipped up’ before he tendered his apology.
What does a city lose when its monuments fall silent, their stones eroded, their stories forgotten? It loses not merely architecture, but memory itself—and with it, a measure of its soul.
Imperialist poet Rudyard Kipling’s White Man’s Burden is an unashamedly racist poem predicated on the premise that the ways of Westerners are superior to those of the “devil-like” irresponsible and flighty natives.
Cooch Behar, the area became the heart of the Kamata Kingdom in the 12th century, during the British Raj it was ruled by the Koch dynasty until 1949, is highly sensitive politically compared to two other LS seats in northern north Bengal.
The British Raj had once introduced occidental music, namely western classical music, to this city when they reigned supreme in an era long gone into the past.
Soon after coming to power in Karnataka, the BJP government had in July scrapped the celebration of Tipu Sultan’s birth anniversary.
Lok Sabha on Friday passed ‘The Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (amendment) Bill’, which seeks to remove the Congress president as…
The High Commissioner further highlighted that the India-Fiji relationship will also improve in the entertainment sector as a rebate of 75 per cent on taxes will be given to all filmmakers and producers if a film is shot in Fiji.
Wading into medieval history, it is well-known that the emperors Akbar and Jahangir took part in Christmas and Easter festivities, which included the burning of the effigy of Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Christ
As one famous South Indian proverb puts it, after living together for six months, “they” become “we” and “we” become “they”; neighbours should be treated like family members.
