Section 66A is a booster shot for Azam Khan’s arrogance
A school student allegedly maligns the image of senior Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh Urban Development Minister Azam Khan. The boy is thrown behind bars under the draconian Section 66A of the Information More...
Subramanian Swamy: A Hindu fighter everyone fears
The various reactions to Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy’s remark that mosques are mere buildings are typical: the man is a bigot, communal, divisive, etc. And again, typically, nobody has refuted More...
Budget 2015-16 is Bad politics
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s second Budget has been widely hailed, especially by industry, as landmark, super-Budget, etc. This is not surprising, given the fact that it is much bolder than the one he presented More...
Narendra Modi and the Law of Unspecified Prerequisites
A most important factor responsible for rout of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Delhi Assembly polls pertains to a simple fact: the Narendra Modi dispensation forgot the fundamental difference between divine powers More...
DELHI POLLS: Modi prepared pitch for Modi
Aam Aadmi Party boss Arvind Kejriwal’s impressive victory in Delhi Assembly elections is also the resounding defeat of the Narendra Modi government and the Bharatiya Janata Party, notwithstanding the protestations More...
Obama bats for Islamic fundamentalists
By making misleading statements and peddling misinformation, US President Barack Obama is weakening the war against jihad—which, in his scheme of things, is a figment of ‘Islamophobic’ imagination. His administration More...
Shirin Dalvi shame: Jinhe naaz hai secularism par wo kahaan hain
Shirin Dalvi, who was the Mumbai bureau chief of the Urdu daily Avadhnama till two weeks ago, has lost her job and is being prosecuted by the authorities and persecuted by her own community. Her crime? On 17 January, More...
Constitution Preamble or Why the Congress is addicted to secularism
In the recent Constitution Preamble row, the Congress has been exposed as a party which has always tried to conjure up bugbears and hide behind claptrap. So, it sees dangerous conspiracies in an inadvertent error, More...
Kejriwal’s shamelessness has run its course
Effrontery is in the air of the political arena but the guy who takes the cake hands down is Aam Aadmi Party boss and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. A year ago, he ridiculed the idea of Republic Day More...
Mr. Parrikar, don’t forget Sonia
The Congress’ tryst with perfidy is making it appear look more and more irresponsible and fickle. Its reaction to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s charge that some former prime ministers compromised India’s More...