We are sometimes forced to forsake our neutrality and take a stand in our daily life. And there have been occasions when we chose to remain meek and refuse to get counted. But for how long are we going to take a neutral stand when issues like these occur?
If the Chinese really value their relations with India as they claim to be, it is important for them to pay as much attention to India’s interests and concerns as we have always paid to theirs. The increasing assertion of the Indian will to defend and promote its interests...
The three-day festival will be held at Ravindra Natya Mandir, Mumbai, December 2-4, will feature over 150 students, aged 6 and above, performing various dance forms and play classical instruments.
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One hundred years ago, India – which was a colony of the British empire – spent nearly one million pounds sterling to host King George V at the coronation durbar at Kingsway Camp in the capital Dec 12.
The day marked the beginning of a journey for the ancient city of Delhi – the mythical Indraprashtha of the Mahabharata – as a modern, cosmopolitan capital.
The foundation of the new city was laid Dec 15, 1911 – three days after the coronation durbar. The capital was named New Delhi in 1927 and was formally inaugurated Feb 13, 1931.
Two British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker laid out the architectural map of the city.
Commemoration of 100 years of the coronation durbar of King George V may not be a mega social event on the government’s calendar – but the centenary of New Delhi has become a private pilgrimage down the lanes of the country’s colonial past for many.
“The government of India feels that if it commemorates the coronation durbar – it might legitimise colonial rule in India,” said writer, journalist and heritage activist Sunil Raman, the co-author of a new book, “Delhi Durbar – 1911: The Complete Story”.
