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Book review | The meaning of india

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The meaning of India advances the view that India is not just a geographical entity, or even a civilizational state, Bhārat, above all, is a chariot leading the world towards truth. Shri Raja Rao's book helps reader to understand the deeper significance of India. Contemporary India is in midst of a great churn over identity of India and the winning side will leave imprints of it's ideology on generations to come, while we are seeing fall of nehruvian concesus it's time to explore new ideas of India and what better than shri Raja Rao's the meaning of India is to base foundations of our 'second republic' of india.  Rethinking nationalism  Nationalism has been a very controversial term and using it always raised eyebrows in post world war 2 europe, rightly so. Also, one needs to acknowledge that definitions change with place and time and in case of post- colonial societies like india and Africa, it has different meanings, that of consolidating and asser...

Book review | Unsung Valour

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Forgotten warriors of the kurukshetra war              "Loyal. Valiant. Steadfast.               They were all that and more.               They secured crucial victories.               They were indespencible.               And yet, they were forgotten." The writers of this book deserve all appreciation for bringing unsung stories of great warriors directly from the kurukshetra war. A very creative addition to long tradition of storytelling in india. The ten stories of book explore the Mahabharata epic in new dimension and bring out tales of lost valour and as they call it  unsung valour  of great warriors of the kurukshetra war forgotten over period of time in popular imagination. This attempt by ten writers to bring to bring forth those forgotten warriors should be appreciated and taken tob...