Manish Tewari lets ideology cat among dispirited Congress pigeons
Manish Tewari lets ideology cat among dispirited Congress pigeons
Will the Congress leadership be paying any heed to sensible and practical advice tendered by party MP Manish Tewari or would it meet a now-familiar spiral of silence and indecisiveness?
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UPDATED: February 5, 2021 14:53 IST
Will Congress pay any heed to a sensible and practical advice tendered by party MP Manish Tewari?
Will the Congress leadership be paying any heed to sensible and practical advice tendered by party MP Manish Tewari or would it meet a now-familiar spiral of silence and indecisiveness?
Reacting to news reports of Ram temple fund collection drive by Congress-affiliated student wing NSUI in Rajasthan, Tewari took to Twitter to call for a “candid” and “conceptual” discussion within the Grand Old Party on “core ideological issues.” Tewari, a former Union minister, was a signatory of a letter in August 2020, ask
When the music of Beethoven mingled with the music of Gandhi’s spinning wheel
In the year of Beethoven’s 250th birth anniversary, remembering how two Europeans brought together Gandhi and the German composer. Wikimedia Commons
This year marks the 250th birth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), one of the greatest exponents of western classical music. It also marks the conclusion of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. However, beyond this insignificant calendrical coincidence, was there any connection between the two? How could there have been? Gandhi, after all, was an ascetic who eulogised and practiced brahmacharya (narrowly understood as a life of celibacy). Beethoven, on the other hand, famously said: “Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life.”