Month: December 2013

Petite incursion dans le monde singapourien

It is the duty of the national authorities to ensure that vested interests based more on prejudice and ‘rent-seeking’ rather than on technical/technological rationale do not come in

The time is ripe for the introduction of Bhojpuri within the portals of Secondary Education After dacades of laisser-pour-compte in the backwaters of the Mauritian cultural, linguistic and

In 1990 when Nelson Mandela stepped out of the prison of Robben Island, few could have predicted that apartheid would be dismantled within a few years, and South

Readers’ Response

If Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul were to visit us today, he would certainly observe that wife-beating, which he described as a national pastime after football, has degenerated into

Titbits

The demise of Nelson Mandela last Thursday unleashed an unprecedented outpouring of praise on the departed leader from all corners of the planet. It was a fitting tribute

Is sex at birth fixed by God, or God’s will? It seems no On Tuesday last the Supreme Court of India upheld a colonial-era law making homosexuality a

Shahabad Mahotsaw 2013 and Incredible Sonepur Mela

It has been argued that communalism cannot be eliminated from a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society as it is very much rooted in people’s minds, in political parties, in socio-religious

Most people are at least aware of, if not speaking of or discussing global warming. Conferences on the topic abound. Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, fossil fuel, burning

All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore, make your own future. – Swami Vivekananda The Ramakrishna Mission at Vacoas has organized its annual book

Tree of Knowledge

Will legality and the wider interest of the country be allowed to be torpedoed by illegality and lobbies that thrive on it? Or will government show the same