Indian Opinion

Mukesh Devrari Can Hindi be our national language? Sometimes people in North India wonder whether South Indians especially people in Tamil Nadu hate Hindi because of their love for their mother tongue or their hatred for Hindi is based on their new found love for English. During the raj, British experts on South Asia used to teach newly recruited civil servants before deploying them on actual service that India is not a country. It is a loosely tied nation which could exist as one unit only because of the British Empire. Tamil Nadu and Himanchal Pradesh are more different from each other than Poland and Britain.  India is ethnically and linguistically more diverse than Europe. Chinese still believe India is not a nation. It is too diverse to be a nation and loosely tied by the Hindu religion.   English became the Trojan horse for India, initially, it was gifted but its actual purpose was to destroy India culturally. If India has any culture at all. There is ...

Mukesh Devrari  Experts from across the the country participated in the round Table Conference on ‘Naxalism, Development and Crisis of Governance in the Context of Jharkhand’, which was organized by the Centre for Human Rights and Conflict Management of Central University of Jharkhand on 26th March 2014. Conference was divided into four sessions ‘Is the Maoist Movement Critical’, ‘Dynamics and Drivers’, ‘The State as Problem and Solution’ and ‘Can the Future Be Better’. Open invitation was extended to all faculty members and students of Central University Jharkhand to attend the round table and freely express their views. However, during the discussion none of the participants explicitly mentioned that Maoists are actually fighting an ideological war with the state. Many of them preferred to describe rebellion in central India as land reform movement which has been degenerated into law and order problem of large proportions.  Practical suggestions were put f...