Economics and Politics

News and articles about Politics that may affect the Sankirtan movement.

DGCA seeks data from Airlines in India to check rising fares

Not sure how long DGCA will take to implement good norms. Around a year back we saw similar news when airlines were asked not...

Bharat Mata ki Jai – The issue shows Indian politics has become sick

After some anti-India slogans were heard during an event at Delhi JN University, Mohan Bhagwat, the chief the Rashtriya Swayam-sevak Sangh had said that...

Builder of the collapsed Kolkata bridge says it was an act of God!

What could be more disgusting misuse of God's name than the builder of the under-construction bridge that collapsed killing around 25 people saying it was...

Soaring Indian economy but Modi faces tough road ahead

This is inevitable when economy is based on industrialism. We have been saying this all along. Not that Modi is not doing his best...

John Kerry says world leaders are shocked at what is happening in America

"Everywhere I go, every leader I meet, they ask about what is happening in America," Kerry told CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday. "They cannot...

A few interesting things Donald Trump said

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he doesn't believe American citizens are safe in their own country. The frontrunner for the GOP's nomination expressed his...

What is protecting Vijay Mallya and the likes? How long?

Once in a while we hear refreshing statements from political leaders. The latest one is from India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Commenting on a...

Questions on the submerged city of Dwarka haunts archaeologists

The headlines of this intriguing reads: "Could this forbidden ancient technology beneath the Arabian Sea force mankind to rewrite the history?" Analysis aside, after watching...

Biometric scanning now required to purchase food. What went wrong?

Giving fingerprints to purchase food? Reports on what is happening in Venezuela, and what the world awaits, need your attention because it might come...

Free Basics and Why India blocked it

This is what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in his response to the news that India has ruled against his highly ambitious Internet.org's Free Basics. "Everyone...

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A tiny tribute to my childhood friends – The house sparrows

I vividly remember that chik, chik, chik, chik of those little lovely birds, during early mornings at our home, flying swiftly from one corner...
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Narsinh Mehta – The devotee who wrote Vaishnava jana to song

In a truly unique initiative to spread India's ancient wisdom across the world, this year the Indian government came up with an out of...

Understanding Vata dosha in Ayurveda

In the ancient Ayurvedic text, the Charak Samhita, Charak describes all the etiological factors which contribute to disturbances in the body’s channels (srotas). ...

Lord Shiva – Myth or Master?

A text wherein the author described, in his own way, the significance of Lord Shiva's different attributes like the snake around his neck, the...
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Srila Prabhupada on Independence

In this verse the word svarajyam, which means "complete independence," is very significant. A conditioned soul does not know what complete independence is....