by Subhash Rai | Oct 10, 2022 | India
Shoaib Daniyal’s latest India Fix newsletter from Scroll, comes with the subject-line that begins with ‘Pappu to Popular’. This is about the resurrection, if you will, or the rejuvenation of, Rahul Gandhi, as the leader of the Congress. Daniyal...
by Subhash Rai | Oct 8, 2022 | Bangalore
The norm was that my parents would go watch the film first, and if it was child-proof enough, my sister and I would be permitted to watch the film. As it happened, most of Kannada movie Thespian Dr Rajkumar’s movies got past the domestic censors! So early in my...
by Subhash Rai | Sep 22, 2022 | Bangalore
Bangalore (Bangalura).- A large fortified town in the Mysore Raja’s territories, 70 miles N.E. from Seringapatnam; lat. 12° 57′ N., lon. 77° 38′ E. The surface here is an undulating table land, nearly 3,000 feet above the level of the sea, but there...
by Subhash Rai | Apr 27, 2022 | India
First some history. According to a report in The Hindu, residents of Harijan Colony, also known as Punjabi Colony, Sweepers Colony, and Them lew Mawlong, is home to 342 families of Dalit or Mazhabi Sikhs. According to the Harijan Panchayat Committee, they “were...
by Subhash Rai | Dec 14, 2021 | India
The BJP’s Piyush Goyal, who is the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, claimed at a CII meet that India “plans to produced 5 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines next year.” For that to really fructify, and for our concern about “equitable...
