West Bengal besieged, India subverted
“There was a siege going on; it had been going on for a long time, but the besieged themselves were the last to take notice of it.” – Paula Fox, a well-known American novelist. Recent incidents of numerous bomb blasts in West Bengal have caused enormous shock and terror across India. Prima facie while the Intelligence Bureau and More...
Secular Phantom Menace and Communal Healing
“You see the coefficient of the linear, is juxtaposition, by the hemoglobin of the atmospheric pressure in the country!” – Amitabh Bachchan (Amar, Akbar, Anthony) Given the level of political and social More...
Pankaja Tai, remember patience is a virtue
This is a translation of Ramesh Patange’s piece in Marathi that was published in Mumbai Tarun Bharat on 24 October. Dear Pankaja Tai, The Maharashtra Assembly elections have just concluded. No doubt you played More...
KASHMIR ISSUE BEGINS WITH THE INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION
The gory struggle for land is one of the most recurring as well as regrettable chapter in the history of mankind, and the 20th Century is no exception. Whether it is Greece vs Turkey over Cyprus, Armenia vs Azerbaijan More...
Kailash Satyarthi –Nobel Prize for advancing WTO’s agenda
The choice of Kailash Satyarthi for the Nobel Peace Prize is the result of an old tussle between India and the US. Throughout the 1990s, the US used trade sanctions as well as the World Trade Organization to foist More...
Narendra Modi: The Prime Minister who will transform India
Introduction: India’s Phase Transition Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi’s administration can be considered to be a “phase transition” for India’s economy, to borrow a concept from thermodynamics. Phase More...
Origins of the Moghul Tyrants of India
Introduction In the autumn of 1404 CE Timur-i-Lenk, after having spread the terror of Islam all over Asia for more than three decades, was poised to launch the final campaign of his life – the invasion of the More...
The Sinister Side of Sufism
For centuries the Sufi creed and Sufi music have been tom-tommed as great symbols of spiritualism and promoters of peace and harmony between the Hindus and the Muslims. The cleverly marketed concept of Sufi spiritualism More...
Jagdish Bhagwati is seriously wrong
I fully agree with Professor Jagdish Bhawati’s approach with respect to economic policies – creating an environment for growth is a necessary condition to make resources available for social initiatives. However, More...
The Nobel Peace Prize: was there more than meets the eye to Kailash Satyarthi’s selection?
Let me be quite up-front about a few things. One, I confess I had only vaguely heard about Kailash Satyarthi before the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 came looking for him. Two, I am as delighted as anyone else that global More...