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What is to be done By Justice Katju What India requires is a modern minded dictatorship determined to rapidly industrialise and modernise the country, e.g. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who rapidly modernised Turkey in the 1920s, or the advisers of Emperor Meiji who rapidly modernised Japan after the Meiji Restoration ofContinue Reading

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TheNewsCaravan WebDesk Rau mein hai rakhsh-e-umr kahaan dekhiye thame Nai haath baag par hain na paa hai rakaab mein – Mirza Ghalib रौ में है रख़्श-ए-उम्र कहाँ देखिये थमे नै हाथ बाग पर हैं ना पा है रिक़ाब में رو میں ہے رخش عمر کہاں دیکھیے تھمے نے ہاتھ باگContinue Reading

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I have joked about many communities, Bengalis, Tamils, Biharis, Nagas, etc, so naturally people asked me to joke about my own community, Kashmiris. There is a Persian adage that one should avoid 3 types of people : awwal Afghan, doyam Kambo, soyam bazzaat Kashmiri ( i.e. first Afghans, second Kambos,Continue Reading