Variety

There is more to life and politics and current affairs. In this section, we attempt to bring you articles that talk about issues and experiences that matter on a more human and personal level

News Reports

“What would be the best way to commit suicide, bullet or cyanide”: Adolf Hitler asked his physician before killing himself in ignominy 75 years...

OpIndia Staff - 30 April, 2020

Adolf Hitler had committed suicide on 30 April, 1945 in his bunker in Berlin to avoid being captured by advancing allied forces

Books

Sutradhar by Ratul Chakraborty: A collection of stories from historical fantasy to cosmic horror set across the arc of Indian history

OpIndia Staff - 26 April, 2020

Sutradhar by Ratul Chakraborty is a collection of stories set across the arc of Indian history.

Politics

“An honest Chief Minister son, is my life’s only precious earning”: Late Anand Singh Bisht told Yogi Adityanath’s biographer

Shantanu Gupta - 21 April, 2020

Yogi Adityanath's biographer, Shantanu Gupta, writes what his parents feel when they see their son Ajay as UP Chief Minister

Culture and History

Noboborsho: While detractors hail Akbar for the Bengali calendar, Bengalis need to remember Shashanka Deva

Debpratim De - 14 April, 2020

Noboborsh: There is much chatter about how our cherished Bengali Calendar was promulgated by Akbar in order to align revenue collection better with the local season cycles

Opinions

Jñanagaman: The Coronavirus Lockdown is an opportunity to move inwards, to know one’s true self

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar - 5 April, 2020

Lockdown is an opportunity to facilitate Jñanagaman - the advent of true knowledge, or, in modern parlance, the awakening of the Force

Opinions

P.P. Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar: The Man who transformed modern India and its trajectory

Abhinav Khare - 25 March, 2020

Just a small idea of Dr. KB Hedgewar of boys playing together in a playground developed world’s largest cadre-based voluntary organization.

Satire

Suffering through Modi’s #ThaliBajao abhiyan is worse than dying from a mysterious Chinese virus. Like, seriously!

Nirwa Mehta - 22 March, 2020

I need a therapist. Coronavirus has led to a total lockdown and I have been spending past 10 days at home on forced quarantine with my Sanghi father.

News Reports

Satyaniti and Swaraj constitute the historical backbone of the socio-political order of India, through the ages

Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar - 19 March, 2020

Satyaniti, this dharmic anarchism, is the result of the Indic civilisation embracing the dynamism of life, and the spontaneity and capacity to self-organize of human beings.

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