The United Minorities Challenge before the Modi Government
The United Minorities are waging a no-holds-barred campaign against Narendra Modi or against whomever is or can be pictured as a pro-Hindu power-wielder. One of their lines of attack is the blackening of the ruling party, the BJP, in the eyes of public opinion and of the world. An impression is being created that the Hindu activists are out to oppress More...
Hindus and the Restoration of Cultural Diversity
If we turn back the clock 2000 years we would see a world full of diverse societies and cultures. Though there were indeed clearly identifiable markers that represented distinct civilizations, be they Chinese, Indian, More...
How to spot an Indian Intellectual
From a lecture by former JNU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Kapil Kapoor before the Indore-based India Inspires Foundation, I have to relate a particularly relevant part, viz. about our Indian “intellectuals”. More...
Summary of Panel Discussion on ISIS
This is the summary of a Panel Discussion entitled “Growing Threats to India after the Emergence of the ISIS” organized by the Delhi-based think tank Patriots Forum on 21 March 2015. Pankaj Sahay attended the More...
Understanding the Land Acquisition Bill: Politics, changes and impact
It is hard to believe before the UPA Government brought the amendments to the Land Acquisition Law in 2013 that we were following the so-called The Land Acquisition Act, 1894, a 120-year-old legislation. The 1894 More...
With biryani lie, is media or Nikam guilty of ‘food racism’?
[View the story “Nikam lied on Kasab’s biryani demand, media peddled that lie ” on Storify] More...
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...
Ex-Baloch minister appeals India to do a Bangladesh in Balochistan
One date the former opposition leader and fisheries minister from Balochistan, who now lives in self-exile in Oslo, may never forget for the rest of life is 3 April 2009. On that day, Kachkol Ali, now 56, a lawyer More...
Mr. Siddaramaiah, where has your integrity gone now?
This is the translation of the original Kannada article by the MP of Mysuru-Kodagu, Pratap Simha that appeared in Kannada Prabha today. Translated by Sandeep Balakrishna. We’ve seen how you smacked your biceps More...
Refer DK Ravi’s investigation to the CBI
The unnatural death of young IAS officer DK Ravi has shocked the entire country. The young officer had made a name for himself by displaying immense courage and strength in the face of great adversities. He had More...