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Why Manoj Sinha’s Homage Yatra to Baba Banda Bahadur Dera is historic March 6, 2021, 11:13 PM IST
The breeze from Indus, a Shiva mantra at Kailas, a trek in Chushul and a chadar walk on frozen Zanskar. All this put together describes Tarun Vijay. He is a former BJP member of Rajya Sabha. The blog revolves around everything that is Mother India and her concerns. LESS. MORE
Those who forget their ancestors, their glory and tribulations, can never weave a happy future.
In this context Jammu Kashmir’s dynamic Lt Governor Manoj Sinha’s tour to Dera Baba Banda Singh Bahadur in Reasi district on 8th March holds a great significance that goes beyond a mere visit by the head of state. Manoj Sinha himself is a democratic warrior, having trounced the Communists in Gajipur, UP, a bastion that had never seen their defeat post 1947. He is a civil engineer and an IIT-BHU alumnus, was president of the BHU students union. He understands what the unparalleled sacrifice of
True Cultural Diplomacy Is Subversive
March 4, 2021
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Andrei Tarnea
Culture is intrinsic to identity, in both its individual and collective expressions. Culture is indelibly imprinted in all our products and activities. For millennia, culture traveled. Tradesmen and caravans, ships and refugees, migrants and warriors transferred, shared, and shaped the cultures we live today. Culture escapes controls, borders, and legal barriers and it circulates with the constant human flow of a roaming species. It speaks, translates, and mediates.
Diplomacy is inseparable from culture. Goods, practices, and ideas including cultural traditions and habits were used as tools of diplomacy. But, ever stubbornly, culture is not just what governments chose it to be.
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DEDICATED “to the spirits of humankind that have fallen victims to the Covid-19 virus,” Garden of Expression is an exemplary album, full of spacious and reflective instrumental jazz.
There is little to distinguish between individual tracks but the set is more about creating a particular mood, something US veteran saxophonist Joe Lovano, accompanied by pianist Marilyn Crispell and Carmen Castaldi on drums, is able to do in spades.
All masters of their instruments, the restrained music feels as much about the silences as what is played. Crispell’s playing provides an undulating lightness to proceedings, while Castaldi’s soft drumming acts as a cushion for his bandmates. The romantic Night Creatures is particularly lovely.
If you're old enough, you might recall the comic Godfrey Cambridge from late-night television in the 1960s, when he was one of a new wave of black