Congress, A Cult Without A Moral Compass
The conduct of the Congressmen during the National Herald court hearings show that they see themselves as servants of the Gandhi family and friends instead of servants of the nation. It is money over morality. Watergate to Heraldgate More than 40 years ago (1970s), I was a student in the United States when the Watergate scandal hit the headlines. There More...
Islamic State is a Country not a Terrorist Group
The whole world agrees that the Islamic State is the biggest security threat to the world but absolutely no headway is being made over it. America and Russia differ on how to handle it and West Asia is divided. The 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...
Why Indians Should Boycott Shah Rukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan is among the most famous people in India. His popularity and influence now extend well beyond the reel world. As the owner of the IPL cricket team, Kolkata Knight Riders, he has become a power player More...
Will Sonia Gandhi be able to Ride the Sympathy Wave if she is Jailed?
Many are of the opinion that if the Narendra Modi government takes a tough stand against the various scams carried out by Sonia Gandhi and her henchmen and women, and if somehow she ends up in jail, she will ride More...
Barkha Dutt Now Targets Amazon
Like Britney (or was it Christina ?) Spears said “oops I did it again”. The large, pan India group of people who support Narendra Modi and the BJP or (trolls/thugs/Sanghis/Hindu Wahabists—take your pick) have More...
The Ongoing Crisis in Islam
After every major massacre perpetrated by Jihadists, the opinion space all over the world gets polarized between the two extremes. The liberals refuse to acknowledge any causal connection between the actions of More...
History, Pride and Textbooks
History is often called the new battlefield. It figures prominently in online columns and on television debates. Of late, there have been great observations by Dr. David Frawley and Sandeep Balakrishna in their More...
Why Trump Haters Could Well End Up Making Him President
If you switched on the TV for the first time in ages last week, then you could be forgiven for thinking that America’s Donald Trump had declared World War 3 and millions are going to die soon. Checking CNN in More...
Sonia Gandhi’s Delusions
History, wrote Karl Marx, repeats itself—first as tragedy, second as farce. The Congress top brass seems to have taken the first part of the quote as gospel truth. Indira Gandhi lost massively in 1977, but sprung More...