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The Rain That Changed Raj !!
Good one, Aram. Moments of self-confrontation come to us very often. Only a few are able to capitalise on them. Your protagonist does.
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Foreign Hands In Indian Gold
You've raised a very important point. I feel that the Indian govt is responsible for our shoddy performance in Sports. Does the govt ever encourage sports? Bindra won the gold because of his personal resources. How many Indians ca n afford to spend that much money on training? If only our politicians spend less on horse-trading and more on development schemes...
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Never say goodbye-Chapter I contd
I've now read both the parts of the story and I must say it promises to be much more than Shobha De. Best wishes.
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Phelps the phenom
Phelps is indeed a phenomenon.
I wonder why we, India, with so much population resource, could not win more than just one gold. And that too the gold was won by a person who spent his own money to train himself. Would you hold our govt guilty?
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Yet another Independence Day
B S Keshav,
I had earlier written a reply to your comment, but deleted it when I noticed an error in it. I’m taking time to give a longer reply because I couldn’t post (due to some technical problem, I think) the personal reply I had written you as a note.
First of all, you think William Dalrymple is only a travelogue writer. Let me quote what some eminent persons think of Dalrymple and his book I’ve quoted in the post.
Amartya Sen: “William Dalrymple’s captivating book [The Last Mughal] is not only great reading, it contributes very substantially to our understanding of the remarkable history of the Mughal empire in its dying days, and also to the history of Delhi, of India, of Hindu-Muslim collaboration, and of Indo-British relations in a critically important phase of imperialism and rebellion...”
Khushwant Singh: [The Last Mughal] shows the way history should be written...
Hindustan Times review of the book: “A compelling, vivid account of the 1857 resistance... captures the tragedy of a mutilated Mughal capital and its butchered populace.”
Pavan K Varma describes it as “the most meticulous work as yet on 1857 in Delhi.”
I can go on with a hundred more such praises for the book from great Indians themselves.
It may be noted that most of Dalrymple’s books are about India. He writes them after doing sufficient research. If you have read any of his books you will understand the extensiveness of his researches.
Secondly, I have focused on a part of the 1857 incident in order to focus on the communal nature of our outlooks. I guess you chose to overlook that focus intentionally.
Thirdly, I am here at Sulekha as a writer and not as a teacher. About my teaching skills and merits you are free to ask my students (there are thousands of them).
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Freedom we want
When will his dream come true on this blessed land
Such that we can beat together our union band?
Let's hope that time will come soon.
Your poem raises some very important issues.
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Never say goodbye-Chapter I contd
This looks like a brilliant story from real life. I must get back to the earlier parts.
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The Second Red Menace
Who knows one day India will learn to excel in sports too just as it learnt the art in economy!
I liked your arguments about the 'second red menace'. But as Shajan pointed out does this menacing accomplishment of China come at a terrible price?
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