Did the Ayatollah qualify for a PIO card?
From Hooman Majd’s excellent The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran:
Some secular Persian intellectuals … reserve a special hatred for Ayatollah Khomeini, not just because he founded the Islamic Republic, but because to them he wasn’t even Persian. Since his paternal grandfather was an India [...]
What sauce do you like on your spaghetti (or, the tale of two covers)
Because this one looks so good (and lost out only due to ‘technical reasons’) we thought you should see it.
Pragati—The Indian National Interest Review is three.
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The four states of power and principle
Bucks for tales
“But honestly, how many of us get excited about editorials?” asks Madhu Rao. (Chances are, if you are reading this, you are one of them. But read on.) In his email, Mr Rao says that INDImag is an out-of-pocket non-profit initiative (sound familiar?) “to get people who love story telling to come and [...]
Why is there so much of it?
“One of the salient features of our culture,” writes Harry Frankfurt “is that there is so much bullshit.” And since “we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us” wrote a little monograph On Bullshit. Given the profound geo-political, geo-strategic, geo-climactic and geo-olfactory importance of this [...]
Perspectives on foreign policy, defence, strategic affairs and governance
Rohan Joshi joins us on INI with The Filter Coffee, a blog “dedicated to raising awareness of issues relating to foreign policy, defense, strategic affairs and governance so that India’s citizens can demand the accountability they deserve from their elected representatives on the pursuit of India’s national [...]
Almost three years ago, the Percy Mistry Committee report recommended that India develop Mumbai into an international financial centre. Like other plans to modernise the city’s infrastructure and public services, the Mistry Committee’s recommendations were substantially unimplemented.
This month, we argue that it is time for the Indian government to revisit the Mumbai project. It [...]
A picture and many strong words
In the January 2010 issue of Pragati, accompanying an article titled “Telangana Liberated”, we published the following photograph.
This image is part of a series of photographs taken by Bharath Margabandu on a protest march against Operation Green Hunt, the Indian government’s new security initiative against the Naxalite movement. We [...]
“Get me an air chief marshal, any air chief marshal”
This happened. Yes, it really did. (linkthanks Sidin Vadukut)
The photograph of former Pakistan Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed in uniform appeared along with those of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi in a full-page newspaper advertisement given by Ministry of Women and [...]
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