'Through his conversation with Yama, Nachiketa helped society grapple with a bunch of knotty issues, just as many of the ongoing conflicts could do today,' says Arundhuti Dasgupta.
The President asked, "Is tolerance and acceptance of dissent on the wane?"
The god of wisdom and success, Ganesha has 108 names.Each name represents one aspect of the god.
'These people want to create fissures among the Hindus and they have been trying to do this for quite sometime.'
M R Venkatesh, chartered accountant turned political commentator tells Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com that Modi's war is not against the opposition parties or the Congress but against the bureaucracy and the establishment.
'No finance minister has the capacity to put the economy in an ICCU just like no finance minister has the capacity to take it for 10% growth!'
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