Posts Tagged ‘nationalism’

Wah Taj!

It’s done with determination
The management of the Taj Mahal Hotel have announced that they “will rebuild every inch that has been damaged in this attack and bring back the Taj to its full glory.”
More power to them. The Taj Mahal Hotel is not just another five-star hotel. There is Indian nationalism in its foundations. [...]

Pragati November 2008: The Sri Lanka dilemma

Contents
PERSPECTIVE
Don’t abandon the Tiger
A Sinhala-dominated Sri Lanka is not in India’s interests
T S Gopi Rethinaraj
The moment of truth on the LTTE
The decimation of the Tamil Tigers is a good thing
Subramanian Swamy
Tuning a new balance
China’s military transformation and the implications for India
Arun Sahgal
Looking back at Amarnath
India must seize the opportunity that has come [...]

Pragati May 2008: Towards liberal nationalism

Issue Contents
PERSPECTIVE
Liberals, culture and nationalism Ravikiran S Rao
An opportunity exists for a new politics
Changing the broken wheel Raj Cherubal
The secular-right must champion economic freedom
Towards “that heaven of freedom” Gautam Bastian
A free nation of free citizens
Out of court Rohit Pradhan, Shashi Shekhar & Mukul Asher
Carry on the battle, but respect the court’s verdict
FILTER
India as a rising [...]

Recognising Kosovo is a bad idea

Kosovo’s independence is a product of the lazy belief that multi-ethnic secular states won’t work
The manner in which Serbia treated its province of Kosovo, the argument goes, leaves it with little legitimacy to retain control over it. Ergo, independence.
Forget that such concern for wronged populations is highly selective and exceptional. Underlying the West’s support [...]

Between impressiveness and delusion

Patriotism, power over people’s lives and the army
“Twenty years from now, men will be ready to die for me, but not for you.” This is what a cadet at the National Defence Academy in Khadakvasla, Pune, tells his friends pursuing engineering when they discuss how much money they will make in their careers compared to [...]