A Fountainhead Of The People’s Hopes And Aspirations Context: India will experience a momentous occasion on May 28 when the new Parliament House is inaugurated, marking the country’s 75th anniversary of independence. We finally have a new edifice in independent India after using a Parliament […]
Sri Lanka’s Malaiyaha Tamils Context: The Institute of Social Development, an NGO that works to address issues affecting Malaiyaha Tamils, organised the event in an effort to draw attention to the community’s long history of struggle and to call for long-overdue answers to their persistent […]
New Parliament To House Sceptre Context: According to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will place the Sengol, a sceptre handed by the British to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to signify the handover of power in 1947, within […]
Buddhism, India’s Soft Power Projection Tool Context: A two-day international Buddhist summit was held in India’s capital city of New Delhi (April 20–21), and it was planned by the Ministry of Culture in association with the International Buddhist Confederation. The Dalai Lama and several prominent […]
Last Unfinished Work of Raja Ravi Varma Context: Raja Ravi Varma, who reinvented Indian art traditions throughout the colonial era, may soon have an unfinished painting in the public domain. The painting ‘Parsi Lady,‘ presently owned by the Kilimanoor Palace Trust, was the famed artist’s […]
The Goal Of Building A Popular Dalit Agenda Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (April 14, 1891, Mhow, India—December 6, 1956, New Delhi), was the leader of Dalit (Scheduled Castes; historically known as untouchables) and First law minister of the Indian government (1947-51). He developed […]