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The late Kannada actor Rajkumar a.k.a. annavaru was not a great actor but songs from his movies are the stuff of legend.

Here is a baker’s dozen of some great Rajkumar songs we have enjoyed over the years (not all were sung by him):

Thamnam Thamnam Nanee Manasu – this song features Rajkumar and Kalpana from the blockbuster Eradu Kanasu

Thanuvu Manavu  – Aarti looks hot in this song from Raja Nanna Raja

Nagunagutha Nee baruve – from the movie Giri Kanye

Enneno Aasefrom the movie Shankar Guru

Ninade Nenapu – featuring Rajkumar and Aarti this song is from Raja Nanna Raja

Chinnada Mallige Hoove – from the movie Huliya Haalina Mevu

Banigondu Elle Ellide – again featuring Rajkumar and Aarti. This song is from Premada Kanike, later made into Tamil as Polladhavan (Rajinikant)

Naa Bidalare Endhu Ninna – again from Premada Kanike

Yaare Koogadali – Rajkumar in Sampathige Saval

Eko Eno Aase – funny dance from Prathidhwani

Navaduva Nudi - a big hit from the movie Gandhadhi Gudi

Binkada Singari – from the 1963 Black & White Rajkumar film Kanyarathna

Naaniruvude NimagaagiAnnavaru in Mayura

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Islam’s borders are bloody, and so are its innards.

 - the late Professor Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (p.258)

Samuel Huntington, a professor of political science and international relations at Harvard University for over five decades, died on December 24.

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Controversial Harvard professor Samuel P.Huntington, in our view the world’s greatest political scientist after Plato, has died.

To those of you who may never have heard of Samuel Huntington, he was the the author who made the phrase Clash of Civilizations famous.

While Huntington has been in the limelight recently after he wrote his famous essay on the Clash of Civilizations in 1993, our favorite book by this colossus remains his classic work on comparative politics Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968).


Samuel Huntington – RIP
(Pix: Harvard News Office)

In the opening chapter of that monumental work on comparative politics, Huntington wrote:

The most important political distinction among countries concerns not their form of government but their degree of government. The differences between democracy and dictatorship are less than the differences between those countries whose politics embodies consensus, community, legitimacy, organization, effectiveness, stability, and those countries whose politics is deficient in these qualities. (P.1)

….Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order. (p.7-8)

Being a book on comparative politics, India figures prominently in Continue reading »

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