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One of the most prominent highway projects of India in recent times, the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway has just been inaugurated by the Honourable Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. According to the Government of India, the 500 km stretch of the project from the total of 701 km that connects Nagpur to the major pilgrimage Shirdi will be first inaugurated. The remainder of the expressway from Shirdi till Mumbai will be finished in the coming months and will be inaugurated then. The government claims that the…

How should God be represented? How about the word of God? Without these two fundamental questions, neither religion nor literature would have come into being. The study of literature and language is the secular version of the classic human search for the meaning of the word of God. God is The Great Absent -- some faithful scribe took down Their words atop the Hill, but what do those words really mean? The attempt to read the scriptures gave birth to the field of hermeneutics -- be it the Talmud, Bible, Koran, or the…

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Politics PMN News PMN Crime Author of the article: Article content Members of hardline Hindu groups filed petitions in a court in northern India to stop Muslims from entering a historic mosque, until the court decides on an earlier plea seeking approval to look for any Hindu relics which may be on the site, lawyers said on Wednesday. Judges of a local court in Mathura, a Hindu religious town in Uttar Pradesh (UP) state, allowed the new petitions but have yet start…

Editor’s note: Narendra Modi is generally known for his debating skills and oratory talents with which he has won several elections in his long political career. However, ever so often, the prime minister also shares his poetry on social media. He is, in fact, a published poet, and his book of poetry A Journey: Poems by Narendra Modi which was published in 2014 deals with all the same themes that we also find in his political campaigns — like that of Hinduism, and nationalism. Moving beyond that, the book also presents a…