RSS and its affiliated outfits have found a welcome entrance into liberal Hindu homes, where photos of Rabindranath Tagore and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose are still hanging on the walls.
Basanta Utsav is held each year in March on the Full moon day of Falgun. Spring is welcomed through music and dances. It literally means the ‘celebration of spring’.
Regardless of how politically or historically astute a person is, if he or she does not have the funds needed to first enter and then conduct a campaign…” Money talks..!” This sad reality trickles down to even local political contests.
The former UN official, Craig Mokhiber, has said that it is the job of the UN leadership to call a spade a spade, since the situation in the Gaza Strip is “not complex, it’s genocide.”
The idea of India must be inclusive and self-reflexive. Our task for the future is to keep the flame of this ‘inclusivity’ and ‘self-reflexivity’ burning.