Many cultures have meanings that are linked to their own interpretation of how the rainbow is formed. However, the local usage of indigenous terms is in danger of disappearing.
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It is reasonable to expect Dravidian ideology to continue its transformational journey under DMK rule
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It is reasonable to expect Dravidian ideology to continue its transformational journey under DMK rule
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has emerged victorious in the 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, a win that falls short of earlier projections of a landslide but one that can be considered a resounding vindication of its high-voltage Dravidian-values campaign. What do the tumultuous events of the past few months, culminating in the election results, mean for the State and its politics?
All’s not well in Bengal’s Third Front, Left plays peacemaker to Congress-ISF squabble
All’s not well in Bengal’s Third Front, Left plays peacemaker to Congress-ISF squabble
In the Left, a section of leaders is questioning whether it can retain its “secular” credentials after the tie-up with Furfura Sharif cleric Abbas Siddique.
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The alliance with ISF, perceived as a hard-line Muslim organisation, is being questioned within the Congress and Left as well. (Photo: PTI)
However, Siddique walked up to the stage as Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was addressing the crowd, amid chants of “bhaijaan”. A miffed Chowdhury returned to his seat, refusing to complete his speech until he was persuaded by Left Front chairman Biman Bose to take up the microphone again. Siddique, on his part, showered the Left with praises for giving him 30 seats but made no mention of the Congress in his entire speech.
For about four decades, one individual who has remained committed to keeping this conversation alive, notwithstanding the enormity of the task, broadening its scope to cater to the complication, is Toyin Falola. He has entered a golden era where no other African scholar can compete with him or match his talents, productivity, and profundity.
February 2021 will forever be remembered in the annals of African history as the month that Africa awarded its first academic D. Litt., presented by the University of Ibadan, Nigeria’s premier university, to the most deserving African scholar of our era, the pre-eminent and peerless scholar, Professor Toyin Falola, rated as the Number One Humanities scholar in Africa, with the most global presence in both the academic and policy world. No sooner was it announced than the news immediately spread to the corridors in the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and UNESCO. It was
Arvind Kejriwal visits the Hanuman Temple in New Delhi on February 11, 2020. | Sajjad Hussain/AFP
The Aam Admi Party is provoking violence in Delhi. Violence against Muslims. It needs to be said clearly and loudly. It also needs to be countered strongly. Its spokesperson, with a straight face, on Sunday made allegations that even the Delhi Police has said are untrue. He repeated the claim that the Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh have now made folkloric: “If we cannot chant Jai Shri Ram in India, will it be chanted in Pakistan?”
The spokesperson, no minor figure in the party (he is after all the person in charge of the poll-bound Punjab) claimed that the murder of a young man named Rinku Sharma in Delhi’s Mangol Puri area on February 10 had a communal motivation. At his press conference, he said that the BJP was unable to protect Hindus in Delhi. “Hindus are not safe in Delhi under the rule of the BJP,” he asserted.