Indian Politics

Electronic devices and electric vehicles have become important because of their mobility. The thing that is essential for mobility is the batteries installed in them. All such batteries are called “lithium-ion”. The reason why Lithium has been labelled as White Gold is that as Gold is limited in quantity on…

DESH AUR DIASPORA By Frank Raj People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. — Norman Cousins (U.S. writer) I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears. — Rosa Luxemburg (Polish-German Marxist) I…

DESH AUR DIASPORA By Frank Raj Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. — Mahatma Gandhi Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. ― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism I…

There has been the paradigmatic connotation of the RSS — the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, as the sole representative of the Hindus and the Hindu Society, in Indian socio-political discourse. As has been established earlier that the RSS is not a Hindu organization. In the present essay, we shall be concerning…

Growth in India’s financial technology industry is skyrocketing. India has just surpassed China as Asia’s leading fintech market, and has become the globe’s second economy, behind only the United States. Across the financial services industry in India, fintech firms are utilizing cutting-edge technology to expand their reach, enhance their customer…

Independence comes at a price. The cleaving of the golden bird will spill blood but free her from her cage. One little moment has the capacity of snowballing into an avalanche. Who knew traders from a company will one day have the country closed in their fists? Manto’s Mottled Dawn…

Hyderabad Mystery: The Case of Missing Documents from Andhra Pradesh State Archives by Ayub Khan Footnotes make for interesting reading, and I always read them first before reading the actual book. They provide important information on the author’s sources and open new avenues of research. When I read footnote 29…