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The Earth shrugged at dawn, and a ripple sped across the ocean. A hundred and fifty thousand human lives ended, and millions more were plunged into misery....
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The government has decided to offer dual citizenship to all overseas Indians who migrated from the country after January 26, 1950, as long as their home countries allow dual citizenship under their law. Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh quoted ..
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In denying such an identity for the people of the subcontinent, the British wished to take credit for the formation of the modern political nation state called India and perhaps more to the point, to deny an independent civilizational status to the Indics. It would become very inconvenient to explain to the British public that given the antiquity of the cultural and civilizational status of the Indics, there was any need for the British to exert the role of Colonial overlord in the continent much less a role where they assumed absolute suzerainty over the people of the subcontinent. It was far easier to keep up the fa?ade that Britain had a civilizing role in the subcontinent, if the presumption was made that there was no civilization to speak of prior to their arrival. Hence the constant attempt to deny any kind of civilizational status and to say whatever there was in existence on their arrival was in large part due to the advent of the Mughals and prior conquests and invasions. It is also ironic that Pakistan tries its best to deny the existence of the Indian identity, given the fact that M A Jinnah wanted to appropriate the name for the territories he inherited from the British....
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"It is this gradual and participatory restoration of faith in the institutions of governance that is the most important task in the reconstruction of a society ravaged by terror." KPS Gill in "Freedom from Fear"
"India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all." - Will Durant ...
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It is not indulging in gross exaggeration or hyperbole to say that India today is undergoing a massive churning of ideas, values, modes and patterns of behavior as she tries to redefine herself in the 21st century at an unprecedented rate. Such a massive churn of ideas is only natural in any democratic society and even more so in a nation which has only recently found the means of freedom of expression in the form of national independence. The objective of the India-Forum is to provide a venue for discussion of issues relating to the definition and evolution of the modern Republic of India. ......
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