Whatever You Say God

An old ferryman with a long white beard and merry twinkling eyes would carry the travelers from one end of the river to another. Although there were bigger vessels and more luxurious boats to do the same, his simple wooden boat, with a lantern hung at one end and the...

Appeasement is Never Good for a Nation

Lalit Koul | August 06, 2008 10,000 forest trees are chopped down to build the Mughal road in Kashmir. No one makes a noise.Acres of land in the Kashmir valley are given to install mobile phone towers. No one screams.Acres and acres of land in the Kashmir valley are...

Aurobindo on Spirituality in India

Spirituality is India’s only politics, the fulfillment of the Sanatan Dharma is its only Swaraj. You can’nt cherish these ideas, still less can you fulfill them if you subject your minds to European ideas or look at life from the material stand point. Materially you...

Pt. Nehru at Aligarh Muslim University in 1948

Speech by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru at the convocation in Aligarh Muslim University in 1948 I am proud of India, not only because of her ancient, magnificent heritage, but also because of her remarkable capacity to add to it by keeping the doors and windows of her mind and...