The Notre Dame Fire – Why it strikes a chord in many Indian hearts and minds
For the last few days, the world’s attention has been riveted on a terrible tragedy that has struck one country and one city. The fire that engulfed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has saddened and grieved millions More...
India’s Inalienable Right to take Preemptive Anti-terror action against Pakistan-II
In the first part of this essay, we looked at the historical backdrop of international law that pertains to a country’s right of self-defence against an imminent or actual armed attack by a foreign country through More...
India’s Inalienable Right to take Preemptive Anti-terror action against Pakistan-I
Although the IAF airstrike against a terror camp deep inside Pakistani territory a few days ago saw an overwhelming display of support and backing from the Indian people, some political groups and their media acolytes More...
Our Armed Forces Severely Handicapped When Fighting Terror
The latest terrorist outrage in Kashmir has produced the usual brouhaha in our ruling circles. The genuine outpouring of grief and outrage from the country’s citizens has cut across every social and political More...
The Rafale Brouhaha– How Similar Disinformation Efforts Were Made in the Past
The relentless agitprop campaign of the Congress leadership, its pliant allies in the Indian Fourth Estate and in the rest of the country’s political framework has now reached a crescendo. It is evident that the More...
High Jinks That May Cause A Cabal To Collapse
History is replete with examples like the one that India saw on TV on the evening of Friday, the 20th July, when Rahul Gandhi, in a bizarre (almost macabre) display of immaturity tried to pull a fast one on Prime More...
Ansari’s Rearguard Manoeuvre: Typical Conduct of Defeated Oligarchies
The dust has not yet fully settled in the wake of the deadly salvo fired by the former Vice-President M.H. Ansari (MHA) as he remitted office, and the exquisite and effective riposte by the Prime Minister to the More...
Colonel Purohit’s Tragic Saga : How India’s Sword-Arm Was Betrayed
On Monday, the 21st August, the Supreme Court effectively ended one of the most painful and tragic episodes in independent India’s history, when it granted bail to the Military Intelligence officer, Lt. Colonel More...
DESI SECULARISTS FOREVER SIPPING FROM TOXIC GOBLETS
As the 2014 elections get under way, marking one of the most critical events in the life of our young Republic (also one of the world’s oldest civilisations), it’s time to take stock of how some of our intellectuals More...
Making Halal of the Indian Constitution
The Command Centre of the loot-and-scoot Congress-led UPA regime of our hapless country has no compunctions about shouting from the rooftops as to how they are subverting the Indian constitution and the country’s More...