Salil Gewali The publication of my previous article,”‘ The Kerala Story’ – a wakeup call, not propaganda,” (Davidvance.net, dated 14 May 2023) has triggered lots of reactions; the article got viral on WhatsApp. While some lost their sanity, I received many emails from concerned citizens who profusely appreciated the piece. Some of the left-leaning individuals even got…
Salil Gewali A film that misleads is “freedom of expression”. A film that awakens is “propaganda”! What if your daughter is radicalized and wants to leave your home? What if your sisters are brainwashed to change their religion and marry the fighters of ISIS, one of the dreaded extremist groups? As…
SALIL GEWALI Aam Aadmi Party of India was born with professed austerity. Fighting rampant corruption in Indian politics and governance was its prime motive. First initiated by Anna Hazare, the movement was fully supported by the general populace, which was later politically capitalized by Arvind Kejriwal and his colleagues. Soon after the 2013 Delhi election…
Violent attacks on Hindus during Ram Navami in INDIA SALIL GEWALI How would a person feel if he/she participates in a religious procession and gets mercilessly pelted with stones by people following other faiths? This happened during the auspicious day of Ram Navami in India on March 30. There were several reports of stone-pelting and…
Roars of Indian media hardly go along with the democratic principles of the country. Though Rahul Gandhi of the Congress party completely lacks leadership qualities and intellectual bandwidth, a brigand of media columnists always tries hard to project him as the future Prime Minister of the country. This is totally absurd. Are Sachin Pilot and…
In the USA, there is no guarantee that the person who left home will return safely in the evening. Thanks to the easy accessibility of guns. Any adult citizen above the age of 21 can purchase firearms. Therefore, a sense of doom always hangs in this advanced country. It is the country with the largest…
Khalid Umar, Portsmouth, UK Every open-minded person appreciates ancient Indian wisdom. If one fails to see greatermeanings in ancient scriptures, that means they have either misread them or have been under the swayof bad influences. No doubt, the English educated Indians have a huge inferiority complex about Indian heritage.They suffer from severe self-hatred syndrome, which…
SALIL GEWALI Indeed, 1st January is a big day because we step into a day which is the beginning of the year. Absolutely a new time — a time for celebration, a time for fun. Of course, also a new occasion to feel important to resolve to take up promising things and think more thoughtfully….
Recently in a remote, north Ukrainian province, a man walked with a rifle on his back and was surrounded by shooters. Suddenly, he stared into the sky and saw an enormous shadow looming near him. Then he suddenly heard a strange siren and horn as if descending from heaven. A huge tanker, along with…
Indians have been pioneers in many fields, especially where it involves grey matter. Mathematics is no different. India’s love affair with mathematics is millennia old and forms the very foundation of many scientific inventions and discoveries. Precision and calculation go hand in hand in India. No language is more precise than…
The Manipuri edition of “Great Minds on India” by Salil Gewali of Shillong was released yesterday by the Chief Minister of Manipur (INDIA), Shri N. Biren Singh, at the special event of ‘World Peace Yagya’ in Kangpokpi District, Manipur. The program was attended by the Member of Parliament, Shri Raju Bista, and the Chief Minister…
It is for the incredible richness of the Sanskrit language, a renowned linguist, Sir William Jones, who came to India as a judge, first translated Kalidasa’s Shakuntala from the original Sanskrit into English in 1789. This stirred the minds and hearts of top European intellectuals that include Johann Goethe, Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schiller, August Schlegel,…
Indian culture and spiritualism have exerted a strong hold over the world’s greatest intellectuals—from psychologists like Carl Jung to poets like T.S. Eliot, from orators like Swami Vivekananda to philosophers like Sri Aurobindo, from statesmen like Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to writers like H.G. Wells. Compiled by Salil Gewali, Great Minds on India is a…
We often thunder that there is a rise in crime against women. But what have we done to stop this apart from making a few laws? Honestly speaking, these few laws and police lathis are absolutely “unable” to keep down the libido of males. With each passing day, an increasing number of sexual predators are up to…
Despite so many technological advances, we can hardly understand nature’s fierce calamities that strike us almost too often. Look at how abnormally continuous rain in Pakistan has played havoc with the lives of millions of its citizens. There are sufficient “causes” for such eccentricities of nature these days. Of course, climate change due to our…