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It is in India’s interest for ISRO to replicate Mangalyaan’s success with Gaganyaan’s human mission by 2022, and prepare for the next milestone: an Indian crew on the moon.

Against the setting November sun of 1963, a streak of dense vapour pierced through the coconut tree-lined silhouette of the Thumba seashore in Kerala.

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Swarajya Conversations with Subramanian Swamy

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Swarajya speaks to Dr Subramanian Swamy on a range of issues, including his life in the academia, politics, the Emergency, and his relationship with the RSS.

In an exclusive interview to Swarajya, the economist, historian, and Rajya Sabha MP Dr Subramanian Swamy talks about his Harvard days and what prompted his return to India.

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Distinguished filmmaker and now author Vivek Agnihotri is in the limelight because of his new book, Urban Naxals.

In the book, Agnihotri writes about his journey in making the film Buddha in a Traffic Jam, which exposed the nexus between an India-wide Maoist terror movement and their supporters in urban centres such as the academia and media.

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B R Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi

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In the contest between Ambedkar and Gandhi, the man who truly was a Mahatma fought a man pretending to be one.

It is not that we do not understand Ambedkar; it is that we fear him.

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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, senior fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Anand Ranganathan, scientist and author spoke with the Minister of Defence, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman for Swarajya Conversations . From the Nirav Modi scandal to the capital expenditure of the military, to the Rafale deal, to India’s nuclear doctrine and the BJP’s chances in the 2019 elections, Ms Sitharaman spoke on all of that and more.

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People whose lives are generally untouched by election victories and defeats spend so much time invested in them. Why?

The euphoria on one hand, and anguish on the other, with which the result of the Gorakhpur bypoll has been received by the Indian commentariat, is proof if any was needed, that investment in elections goes much beyond the one made by the politicians who are fighting it.

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Nationalism is as useful to humans as their tail.

Nationalism is an unaccommodating relic and in today’s globalised world it represents a dangerous anachronism.

There is nothing constructive that Nationalism can achieve in peacetime that Patriotism can’t.

Nationalism is as useful to humans as their tail.

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This is the story of two men, Azizul Haque and Hem Chandra Bose, who laid the foundation for modern forensics but whose efforts went unrecognised. 

While the individual man is an insolvable puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

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Published15-08-2015
FORMATPaperback
Edition1st
Extent360
ISBN9789385436017
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Even as Kapil Dev lifts the 1983 World Cup, thousands of miles away, in the dense jungles of Mizoram, a secret mission stands compromised.… Read more