Sushma thwarts shenanigans on Gaza
By rejecting a Parliament resolution on Gaza disturbances, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has given a clear signal to the Opposition that the Narendra Modi government is not comfortable with the appeasement More...
Kulkarni, a peace maniac
If a man batters his wife every day but regularly delivers a discourse on woman empowerment as well, he deserves to be forgiven. If a pedophile runs a campaign for human rights, he should be accepted as a respectable More...
Narendra Modi’s post-Nehruvian foreign policy
The greatest thing about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy is that it does not have any pretensions of being great. It is characterized neither by the Left-leaning bombast and bluster reminiscent of More...
Congress Crimes 5: Punishing Congress crimes is no vendetta
The Congress leaders seem to be convinced that they can fool all the people all the time. The grand old party has reasons to be sanguine about the efficacy of this mantra, for it has ruled the country most of the More...
Time to shed Emergency legacy
Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has rightly highlighted the “Emergency mindset” of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. The mindset vilifies anything that More...
Narendra Modi’s first month: an objective assessment
A month is a very short period in the life of a government—especially a government that cannot be dislodged in less than five years. So, it will be premature to judge the Narendra Modi ministry after 30 days. Before More...
Ideas to combat destructive NGOs
The Narendra Modi government’s campaign against non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is welcome, especially because the previous regime indulged them to the extent of blind appeasement. However, it would be better More...
Sonia Gandhi’s NGO regime exposed
That sundry activists indulge in anti-national activities has been the theme of a large number of articles that I posted on this website. A news story in The Indian Express (June 7, 2014) has confirmed, if any More...
Narendra Modi should scrap Section 66-A
The evil that men do lives after them, said Antony in Julius Caesar, but the good is oft interred with their bones. Thankfully, what is true about men is not true about regimes. The Congress-led United Progressive More...
Narendra Modi: the first anti-Nehruvian Prime Minister
Some men, wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, are born posthumously. But some men also die posthumously: Jawaharlal Nehru belongs to this category. Biologically, he died on 27 May 1964, at the age of 74. But it was almost More...