Never Forget the Darkness: Emergency @ 40
India’s strength has always been its vibrant democracy. Ours is perhaps the only country where people from contrastingly different castes, creed, religion and race live together in peace and harmony. The Crime of Emergency and the much worse crimes during the period it was imposed is still haunting the Congress. The Congress continues to wash the More...
Emergency @ 40: A Dictator removes two elected Chief Ministers
‘Once a dictator always a dictator’ can be said to be a truism suitable for the late former Prime Minister of India Smt Indira Gandhi. Like any leader, she had her highs and lows, more lows to be fair. Among More...
India is a football in the Global War on Terror sham
The David Headley saga should make Indians realize the ruthless ways of superpowers and their geopolitical games. It has in fact exposed the real “anti-terror” face of the US, Pakistan, and unfortunately a collusive More...
Jagendra Singh or the murder of Journalism
‘The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism’ said More...
The rebel who had a desire for sacrifice
Note : The following is a tribute to the late great revolutionary Ram Prasad Bismil whose eighty-eight birth anniversary took place yesterday. ‘His poetry is also a lamp lighted at the altar of the Mother land,’ More...
The Congress today has become an impediment to reform
As we pass completing one year of the Modi administration, it is a matter of interest to record how negative the media has been of the Modi government despite the fact that few would doubt either its reformist credentials More...
Myanmar retaliation: Modi’s finest hour
The unprecedented surgical strike inside Myanmar by the special forces of the Indian Army will go a long way asserting India’s right to safeguard its interest in south Asia. The elite commandoes liquidated about More...
Manipur: History, politics and faultlines
Manipur is one of the Seven Sister states of India. The Seven Sisters, of the North-eastern states as they are collectively called, are a miniature India, with ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity, with faultlines More...
Introspecting Operation Bluestar
Certain tragedies that befell our country are very difficult to forget; one such incident was the controversial and destructive ‘Operation Bluestar’ – a military operation in 1984 – to flush out Sikh militants More...
Maggi, Maruti, Mandal and Mandir: the dying 80s brands in the Modi era
On a trip to Mexico in 1982, India’s then Information and Broadcasting minister, Vasant Sathe discovered a communication strategy developed by Miguel Sabido of producing “telenovelas” (soap operas of the socialist More...