On June 24, 1947, a private pilot named Kenneth Arnold in the United States claimed to have witnessed nine disc-shaped crafts in the sky, moving “unlike anything else he had ever seen”. The incident was the shot across the bow to a global mania of sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), reported everywhere from rural farmlands across the world, to Washington, DC in 1952, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official residence of Lok Kalyan Marg in 2018.
Are we alone in this universe? Is somebody trying to contact us? In this package, we systematically sift through the popular UFO and alien lore from Roswell to Area 51, talk to UFO investigators and scientists alike, analyse the geopolitical implications of UFO sightings at the peak of the Cold War, and dissect the technological, scientific and philosophical implications of confronting truths that could mark an epochal shift in the human civilisation.
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Ram temple not an issue in south
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Haute and sweaty
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MOVE AWAY MARY!
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CEPA and beyond
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Brash and raw
When I chanced upon Raj Narain, who humbled Indira Gandhi
Lone voice of dissent
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Modi and the Muslim syndrome
I have long been intrigued by the prime minister’s desire to hug every passing sheikh and sultan and his contrasting contempt for the ordinary Indian Muslim.
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Imphal is blanketed in darkness. The sun has set a little too soon in the valley, but N. Biren Singh is yet to call it a day.
SPOTLIGHT ON THE SENTINELS
Manipur government wants the Assam Rifles replaced, but the Union home ministry is focused on upgrading infrastructure and connectivity before deciding who guards the state
