No idiot @JhaSanjay India needs smart bureaucrats who can be recruited from wherever they are found.
Giving charge to people who know how to crack UPSC has been a disaster.
Nut cases keep opposing lateral entry which is the way to find proven top talent and that’s how the world works.
Everyone is outraging after The Economist article on India’s pathetic government websites.
The elephant in the room: We need a smart, educated, English speaking, well read, tech savvy politician who has his heart in the right place. A visionary, a dreamer, a doer. A secular democrat. A sense of humour too.
What we have is substandard, subpar frauds. India has moved beyond these old fogey wheeler dealer criminal variety of crooks masquerading as our hope.
I support Pakistanis in claiming their Indus Valley Heritage. I heard there are plans that prominent Pakistanis are planning to convert to the ancient Indus valley religion by starting the worship of status found in the excavation.
I admire Pakistanis. Indians should stop being mean and encourage Pakistanis in their attempts to return to their polytheistic roots.
Pakistan's latest campaign claiming the Indus Valley Civilisation, Sanskrit, the saree and even Indian classical dance isn't random it's a narrative operation.
First came replacing "India" with "South Asia." Now comes the attempt to recast Pakistan as the original civilisational state.
The facts don't support it.
The living continuity is even clearer. Sanskrit remains a living Indian tradition. The saree is worn daily across India by millions.
This rebranding accelerated after Operation Sindoor. It deserves serious scrutiny.
Chanakya couldn’t have been born in India. A mind like his needed Taxila, one of the ancient world’s greatest centres of learning, not endless forests and second-rate courts watching second-rate kings fight second-rate rivals.
Great minds need great institutions, which is why Chanakya emerged from Takshashila, Pakistan, and not from some place Indians now wish he had come from. There’s a reason history remembers Taxila and not 'Jaipur University, 300 BCE.'
Modiji cares even about his staunch critics. He is not just feeding turtles, he is also feeding the ego of vain @dhruv_rathee . Sab ka saath sab ka vikas
@dhruv_rathee Modiji loves to feed animals. He is throwing crumbs to Dhruv Rathi so that Dhruv baby gets to feel good about himself.
Modiji is a generous person obviously.
Although I am a staunch supporter of Modi and Fadnavis, I would say that every citizen and opposition politicians like @priyankac19 has a right to question current government about situations like these. It doesn’t matter what’s the history and how we got here.
It’s a wet fantasy of Modi haters like @ashoswai that Modi is somehow scared of Trump or he is compromised. Modi is playing a diplomatic game that is geared towards protecting Indian national interests. Whether he appears weak or strong or scared or scary - all of this is left for trolls to analyze. Nobody navigates the diplomatic minefield like Modi and he will make sure India will come out of these difficult times without getting hurt so much.
I don’t think Pakistan’s attempt to appropriate history of IVC, Taxila, Gandhar etc. should be taken seriously. Very soon their own hardliners will start opposing this trend. Even ‘Sar Tan se juda’ threat will be used to silence these people.
In fact we should welcome Pakistanis to claim their past and switch to religious and cultural practices of that era
@KanwalSibal
If the British had not divided India and Pakistan was not created, Taxila will be part of whose history?
Imran Khan was proud that Pakistan was “the first country made in the name of Islam”.
How does Taxila fit into this view?
Is it being reclaimed in the name of Islam?
Very good point by Anuj Dhar.
The ecosystem is busy explaining difference between the uncle Hasan and his infamous nephew Huseyn Shahid.
True Bengalis don’t want to be reminded of the name Suhrawardy. Why is everyone suddenly discovering the ‘eminent’ uncle now?
Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Suhrawardy (1884-1946) was a surgeon and vice-chancellor of Calcutta University. In 1932, he was bestowed knighthood for saving the life of Stanley Jackson from Bina Das. Selected by Muslim League to be a member of the Legislative Assembly, he renounced his knighthood at the call of his party. His daughter became a politician and diplomat in Pakistan. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was his nephew. A road named after him in Kolkata during the British Raj days has now been renamed after Gopal Patha. No public place/road in free India should be named after those linked to the Muslim League, no matter how eminent they were in other fields.
Hey Timothy Kane, I hope you understand the difference between Taxila and Tequila 😀😀
Based on the kind of knowledge oozing out of your posts, I doubt it.
This dude Timothy Kane is working hard to please his Pakistani hosts in the hope of someday leaving this punishing assignment on a high note. He probably thinks it will advance his career.
Naive Aussie, now that you have mentioned Taxila, you should read its history and understand the people and culture that made it such a thriving place emanating the light of knowledge.