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The UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should be congratulated for side-stepping Urdu from the simultaneous translation in the assembly. There is hardly any doubt that except for script, there is no difference between Hindi and Urdu. Its syntax and numbers are the same as those in Hindi. It is only due to some fanatical Muslims that its script is a mix of Persian and Arabic, which has no justification whatsoever. Moreover, these fanatics made Urdu laden with Arabic and Persian words. They saw to it that Urdu remains exclusively the language of Muslims. It is a different matter altogether many non-Muslims have contributed to its literature. In pre-partition days Aligarh Muslim University played a dirty role in driving away the Urdu from the people and the area where it was born. This university and the Urdu language provided the necessary arsenal for the creation of Pakistan. It was because of the hardened communal elements that Urdu was declared the official language of Pakistan alt...

  Judgment of acquittal passed by the Chhattisgarh High Court in a case of marital rape where the wife died due to the sexual brutality of the husband is nothing but a mockery of justice. The case belongs to the Jagdalpur district of Chhattigarh. The accused husband, a driver, committed unnatural sex with his wife, and left her in pain, who died in a hospital. In her dying declaration, recorded before a magistrate, the victim alleged that her husband had inserted his hand in her anus, following which she suffered excruciating pain. The woman was admitted to the hospital for treatment, from where a report was made to the police station concerned and the offence under IPC Section 377 (unnatural sex) was registered against her husband. The Indian Evidence Act, 1872, under Section 32 deals with the concept of a “dying declaration”. Usually, a dying declaration is only admitted as evidence in cases where the cause of a person’s death comes into question. This concept is based on the Lat...

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla must be admired and congratulated for reprimanding the DMK Member of Parliament, Dayanidhi Maran who, on the other day, insulted Sanskrit on the floor of the House by asking a silly question from the Speaker. The speaker informed the House that the facility of simultaneous translation is available in 22 languages. The short speech (intervention) of Dayanidhi Maran was that this facility should be made in Sanskrit, which is not the language of any state. His question exposed him as an illiterate and non-sensical bordering on the brink of insanity. What is most idiotic is that this nincompoop did not have any objection to any other language but only to the translation facility in Sanskrit. Possibly, he is not aware that Sanskrit is the mother of all Indian languages including Tamil, although clowns like him do not accept this fact. It appears that he does not know that even the Tamil of Chennai differs from the Tamil of Madurai and Rameshwaram. Moreover, t...

Yuval Noah Harari is a well-known Jewish writer. His books have been acclaimed all over the world. He teaches history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His book ‘Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind’ is considered a meticulously researched book on human history. His latest book is ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’. There cannot be any dispute that humans today have much more information and power than in other ages, but we cannot say for certain that our role in the universe is equally better. Science and technology have completely changed human thinking patterns, lifestyles, and interrelationships. Most of the changes have taken place in the last two hundred years but the changes in the last three decades have been mind-boggling. The writer has tried to explain the information, as it is a tool to discover the truth. Its main role is to represent the reality. Religious books like the Vedas, and Torah of Judaism have also been considered to ...