One year of the Narendra Modi Government: An assessment
Last year’s General Election was a mandate for hope, and the promise of a truly post-Congress India, shown by just one man: Narendra Modi. The current Prime Minister rode to power on the back of his image as a disruptive reformer with not just the ability to charter new legislative directions but also to ensure that legislative changes translate to More...
Pakistani Brigadier who got bounty on Osama head wrote this to me
The man who got the Osama bin Laden $20 million reward for justice used to engage Sindhi and Baloch intellectuals, writers and activists on the internet until his sudden disappearance and had written this to me More...
Open letter regarding AAP crisis
Dear Arvind Kejriwal, L Ramdas and other members and ex-members of AAP: Arvind Kumar has been appointed as the External Lokpal and third party mediator to resolve the conflict in the Aam Aadmi Party. All of you More...
Modi’s China Visit: India—China the new giants
In the ongoing visit to China by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this infographic pithily explains what the visit holds for both the countries in terms of economics, development, technology, the future of BRICS, and More...
Exodus: Is the Christian church losing critical mass?
Is Christianity facing an exodus of, well, Biblical proportions? There are clear signs that the passion of Jesus’s followers in the West is ebbing and the congregation is losing critical mass. A major new survey More...
Tips for the Salman Khan-obsessed media
November 1, 2007: Jyotikumari had boarded the regular cab contracted by the company to report for night shift on. Driver Purushottam Borate and his friend Pradeep Kokade changed the route, took her to a remote place More...
The Kejriwal Saga: Evading punishment
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is indeed an inventive genius. The maverick leader of the shadowy political outfit has proven to harbour way too many tricks up his sleeve. A recent incident proves how he More...
Understanding BIHAR’s upcoming assembly elections
The Bihar legislative assembly elections are due as the tenure of the current Legislative Assembly expires on 29 November 2015. It is pertinent to mention that the Janata Dal United (JDU), Rashtriya Janata Dal More...
Contemporary negationists of the Abrahamic doctrine
For centuries, the Abrahamic predilection for destroying all places and objects of worship save their own, generally inflicting either their religion on the Pagans and visiting gratuitous cruelty on the more recalcitrant More...
LAB is actually Land Acquisition for Development
What’s in a name? A lot it would seem. We have been discussing the ‘Land Acquisition Act’ widely over the past few months. However, there is a lesser known official title of the bill which reads thus: Right More...