By Francois Gautier After Bal Thackeray’s death, which was covered extensively, the Media conveniently forgot how much it bashed the Thakeray family. Laughter, derision, mockery, horror, you found it all in the press. In fact, some of the Media made a common practice of bashing-up all Thackerays’ father, son and nephew. Most people, specially outside Maharashtra, [...]

By Sita Ram Goel Macaulayism. The term derives from Thomas Babington Macaulay, a member of the Governor General’s Council in the 1830s. Earlier, the British Government of India had completed a survey of the indigenous system of education in the Presidencies of Bengal, Bombay and Madras. A debate was going on whether the indigenous system [...]