The Concept: The Indian Opinion is an honest attempt by a group of four working individuals to provide a platform for people of our age to express their opinions on issues that matter, whether on politics, culture, economy, movies, sports etc. While we all have our different motivations behind starting this venture we have a few common goals that we would like to achieve through it as well. The id
ea is to give our unbiased perspective, or opinion on something, that was either a burning issue, or affected our lives and those of others over time. Through this, we aim to engage in what could be called informed public disclosure of our views, ideas and possibly solutions. Frankly, we all have so much to say, which we end up blurting out inefficiently and insufficiently on Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media, which neither affect decent discussions, nor convey the essence of our thought process. About The Logo: Radhakrishnan described the Wheel in the Indian Tricolour as follows: “…the wheel denotes motion. There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement. India should no more resist change, it must move and go forward. The wheel represents the dynamism of a peaceful change…”
Somewhere in the last 65 years we stagnated. There was resistance to change and there was hesitation in moving forward. But never before in the modern political history of independent India has change been a bigger theme, defining our cultural, political and economic lives. We, at The Indian Opinion pride ourselves for being a part of that dynamism. Our logo stands for the same growth that has been central to the Indian democratic experiment. Each of the 24 spokes of the Ashoka Chakra stand for the values of Courage, Empathy, Magnanimity among others that define the Indian ethos and we believe that every individual, whether Indian or not, strives to abide by them in the course of her / his life. With this, we join this march towards change. About The Name: We’ve already been asked several times, why we chose to call this venture “The Indian Opinion”. The reason isn’t very complicated. We realized that most issues that mattered to us, especially those that we wished to express our opinions on, invariably and intensely had to do with the fact that we’d grown up in a modern India and developed our thought processes based on the issues that we saw around us on a day to day basis. Here, we would like to clearly mention that “The Indian Opinion was a newspaper established by Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi. The publication was an important tool for the political movement led by Gandhi and the Natal Indian Congress to fight racial discrimination and win civil rights for the Indian immigrant community in South Africa.”- Source: Wikipedia. Our magazine has nothing to do with the aforementioned newspaper launched by Gandhiji in the early twentieth century, which is now out of circulation. To send in articles, feedback or suggestions, write to us at: [email protected]
