Category Society, Literature, Arts, Sports and Culture

Gyan Bharatam Mission (2025): Digitizing India’s Manuscript Heritage

Gyan Bharatam Mission is a visionary mission launched by the Indian government, which aims to revive and allow universal access to the manuscript heritage of India. In the Union budget of India 2025-26 presented on 1st February 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the launch of the Gyan Bharatam Mission to safeguard the manuscripts containing ancient India’s diverse and valuable knowledge through digitization and making them available for posterity. 

Ram Temple: A Reflection of National Identity and Cultural Ethos

The Ram Mandir in Ayodhya marks a cultural renaissance in Bharat. This cultural wave transcends the ethos put in place in mediaeval India, which was marked by aggressors and invaders, and heralds a new dawn. The past decade has not only seen a cultural resurgence but also witnessed technological innovation and a manufacturing revolution. Ayodhya, then, will go down in history not only as a religious site but also as a place where faith, power, and the economy converged under an overarching sense of inclusivity.

Could Stronger Leadership by Manmohan Singh Have Prevented the Rise of the Right?

Glowing tributes are being paid to Manmohan Singh. Not only it is an Indian tradition to praise the departed, but much has changed since he demitted the prime ministership following the rout of the Congress in 2014. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-II headed by him was characterised by policy paralysis and non-performance and that was exploited by the BJP and Narendra Modi. But today, Singh comes across as a democrat and the contrast with the present times is stark.

Divide and Rule Anti development

The nation is not at peace. News of violence and protests have become routine. The result is diversion of the nation’s energies from tackling urgent long term national and international challenges that are piling up with implications for national well-being.

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