When Mrs Indira Gandhi, imposed Internal Emergency in India (1975), Dr Dharamveer Bharti, the editor of well-known Hindi weekly Dharam Yug, published his famous poem,” Khalq Khuda Ka” 'खल्क खुदा का, मुल्क बादशाह का' in protest.
The poem and its subject set me thinking about several episodes of broken homes and breakdown in marriages that I have seen in last five years within my own small social circle. I was able to list up as many as 12 cases where marriages had broken...
Painting by Pt Ravi Dhar
To the immortal Kashmiri saint Lal Dyed (1320- 1392) goes the credit of starting the trend of blending spiritual thought with mysticism and expressing it in poetry of highest order. Many others, like Nund Ryush followed....
The Indian socio-political stratosphere has lately been witnessing quite a few sparks of religion linked political thinking, due to what is often termed as a belligerent Islam vs a politically awakening Hinduism confronting one another.
Sometime back, I saw a social media post, lamenting the loss of some of our childhood’s most iconic memories – those associated with our Matamaal (mother’s house or Nana/ Mama’s house).
India got political freedom from its colonial masters on August 15, 1947. Indian National Congress, which led the freedom struggle, replaced the British as political masters of the country; it chose to ignore the sage advice of Gandhi Ji to disband...
J. Krishnamurti, the renowned Indian philosopher is said to have remarked,” Man invented God out of Fear & Despair”! The relationship between our Creator and Man was supposed to be very personal or individual.
Seven decades after the people of India gave to themselves a constitution guaranteeing certain additional fundamental rights to religious and linguistic minorities, the nation is struggling to know what constitutes a “minority”.
Shakespeare, the master story teller, in his drama Macbeth has beautifully depicted how overvaulting ambition of a ‘hero’ turns him into a killer and how he meets his retribution.