Tag: points to ponder

  • Soured Mango man.

    With elections round the corner, We have not had any of the candidates visiting us for their sell myself call. If they do I have a list of 10 question whoever has the maximum response that match mine will get my franchise. But what really amazes me Good-Bad-Evil  Narendra Modi is seems to at the…

  • The woman’s magazine

    Woman….. Thank fully the anguish of listening to women on women, specially Fulbright scholars , who have lived in Delhi and somewhere in uncle sam’s land, or those  intellectual, activists  who did their work on Indian women from Harvard has dulled, the headache of listen to woe’s of the woman, waiting to be rescued by a magical wand…

  • The Road Ruler..

    3,505 road accidents registered in Goa till October 2013, of which 209 people died, out the 209, 127 were on two wheelers. We scream our concerns for road safety, we have the road safety week from 2nd to 7th January candlelight marches, street plays, banners, seminars and god knows what but do people really care?…

  • Historiography

    Historiography Is the writing of history, the writings of history based on critical examination of sources, the selection of particulars from authentic materials and synthesis the particulars into a narrative that will stand the test of critical methods. It can also be called the principles theory, a history of historical writing. Two tendencies of history…

  • Oligarchy

    Oligarchy is a term that refers to a govt. Run by a few specially a small faction of persons or families. Dadabhai Naoroji refers to this as one of the causes of the draining of wealth from the subcontinent. In his books Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, he talks of draining of 200-300 Million…

  • creating a hindu

    Histography? Is a historian looking at history. When we look at history it is important to know who is telling the story. That is whose point of view are we speaking? History is also how people look at themselves.  How did the Indians write their history? They wrote is just the way British wrote it.…