TRUTH ABOUT KAMLA BENIWAL AND THE MEDIA SPIN
There is an unseemly clamour and competition among several prominent TV media anchors of NDTV and CNN-IBN among others, as well as prominent political analysts to whitewash the indefensible acts of malfeasance committed by Kamla Beniwal, former Governor of Gujarat during her political career as a leading light of the Congress party. Reproduced below More...
Saint Sonia and saintly lies
Former Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist Natwar Singh’s book and his interactions with journalists have once again exposed the lie that that Sonia Gandhi made a great sacrifice in 2004 when she offered the prime minister’s More...
Siddaramaiah Government: Running with the hares and hunting with the hounds
1. The legal battles between the owners of sugar factories and the sugarcane growers are not a thing of today. While hundreds of cases have already been decided, many more are pending adjudication before various More...
India’s Sri Lanka policy must include caution
New Delhi’s foreign policy towards Sri Lanka so far has been characterized by oscillation and inconsistency. It had been unduly defined by Tamil Nadu in the 1980s and is now being increasingly influenced by More...
Israel: Depravity of political analysts
Israel, our media moghuls inform us, is a bully in the Middle East that kills babies in Gaza. Supported by the West, the Jewish state continues to bomb targets, regardless of the civilian casualties. Palestinians More...
The strength of Sanatana Dharma
1 August 2014 witnessed the annual celebration of the Naga Panchami (or Nagara Panchami) festival across India and the world. It is also celebrated as Bhratru Panchami, an occasion where brothers are honoured More...
A Primer on Economics: the disastrous impact of the Nehru Rate of Growth
Counterfactuals are generally instructive and entertaining. But in some cases, it can be deeply distressing to consider them. Those leave us sadder although wiser. And at times they provoke us to anger and outrage More...
A Primer on Economics: Counterfactual exercise in India’s GDP
There comes a time in every endeavour when it becomes imperative that one does a bit of arithmetic. One of the co-founders of the field of artificial intelligence, the late John McCarthy of Stanford University used More...
IndiaFacts Interview with Suresh Prabhu
One of the key appointments made by the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government has been that of former Power Minister, Suresh Prabhu, who now heads the advisory panel on the integrated power, coal, and renewable energy More...
Was Narendra Modi the real target of MH 17 shooters?
New information has emerged in the aftermath of the shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17 which was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. According to reports in the media, Prime Minister Narendra More...