Will Zakir Naik Be Served His Due “Dessert”?
Zakir Naik, 50, the MBBS doctor, is right now in the midst of a tsunami created largely by the media- social and mainstream. They are all baying for the blood of the erudite and garrulous fanatic of the Quran and More...
Unasked Questions On Rohith’s Suicide
Despite the reams of print ink and TV diarrhea on the death of 26-year-old student, Rohith Vemula, on January 17/18, 2016, on Hyderabad University campus, there remain unanswered questions because the unbelievable More...
The Truth About Our “Secular” And “Socialist” Preamble
When the country’s Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, opened the recent Parliamentary debate on “Commitment to the Constitution”, it took about ten minutes of thanks and tributes before he set the cat among the More...
Decoding the Honourable President’s Advice
Is the current holder of the executive power of the Union of India passing under a spell of divine or its opposite force? Are the media, the Congress Party, some 30-odd shitakes and some Nehruvian intellectuals More...
Malcolm Turnbull Shows the Way
When asked about the “Breaking News” story of a multiple rape by a juvenile group in his state, UP’s Netaji said “Boys will be boys”. The same has now happened about the Dadri episode in that state. Politicians More...
Beef Ban Bombs Explode Ignorance
Today is the birth anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi, the man whose several written views on the cow and its slaughter were found worthy of compilation in a book of his Epigrams by S.R.Tikekar. Among the gems therein More...
Recalling the Indus Water Treaty or Nehru’s Sixth Blunder
Immediately after last month’s aborted Indo-Pak NSA-level talks, a participant in a Rajya Sabha TV debate said “Let’s see how their Water Talks go.” “Water Talks? Indo-Pak Water Talks? What, pray. are More...
Hamid Ansari and Rafiq Zakaria: A Study in Contrasts
Is it appropriate for the Vice President of secular India to speak publicly about the deprivation and discrimination by the state against his community? Is it acceptable for our nation’s Vice President to speak More...
NSA Talks: In Which Pakistan does an Arvind Kejriwal
Twice in just over a year, the Hurriyat hounds have been made pariahs by the Modi-led government of India. In August last year, India cancelled its scheduled Foreign Secretary level talks with Pakistan after the More...
OROP: Modi Government is the Victim of Past Sins
It’s pathetically foolish for anyone to believe that that the NDA government will deceive the nation by not honouring its commitment to OROP. It’s natural for the Pappu of our politics who has recently taken More...