Vaidik’s meeting with Hafiz Saeed is an act of treason
A lot is being said and written on the meeting between Mr. Ved Pratap Vaidik and Hafiz Saeed, head of a terrorist organization named Jama’at-ud-Da’wah. Hafiz Saeed also has close links with Lashkar-e-Taiba and is a wanted terrorist by several nations including India and the United States. His name figures in the major terror attacks More...
A Nepal agenda for Narendra Modi
Backgrounder It is indeed good news that Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi will be visiting Nepal during which he is expected to announce a major economic assistance package for Nepal. After creating a positive More...
A Primer in Economics: Theft
Introduction Why are some countries poor while others rich? That’s a more complex question than the question why a particular person is rich and another poor. The difficulty in the latter case arises because an More...
Why the Congress should not be given the Leader of Opposition
The short and simple answer: it hasn’t earned it and therefore doesn’t deserve it. The slightly longer answer: with a paltry 44 MPs, it doesn’t have the 10% strength required to become the Leader of Opposition. There’s More...
How a chaiwallah enabled a Kutch villager’s vision for India
On our return from the Safed Rann (White Desert) back to Ahmedabad, we stopped by at Dhaaneti, an ordinary Kutchhi village off the Bhuj-Bhachau highway, made up of a few hundred well maintained homes set in narrow More...
Congress Crimes 5: Punishing Congress crimes is no vendetta
The Congress leaders seem to be convinced that they can fool all the people all the time. The grand old party has reasons to be sanguine about the efficacy of this mantra, for it has ruled the country most of the More...
Summons to Gandhis in National Herald case: Legal study
Introduction The Right Wing is euphoric. It has already started visualizing the Mother-Son duo in Tihar. The other camp is just about recovering from the shock and continues with its “we care a damn” façade More...
Indian foreign policy: a wake up call
Indians and their policy makers share a belief that they are ineffably decent people, who embody worthy moral values. This was clearly the basis for Nehru’s much-reviled, pompous self-righteousness. It was in More...
Time to shed Emergency legacy
Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has rightly highlighted the “Emergency mindset” of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. The mindset vilifies anything that More...
Narendra Modi’s first month: an objective assessment
A month is a very short period in the life of a government—especially a government that cannot be dislodged in less than five years. So, it will be premature to judge the Narendra Modi ministry after 30 days. Before More...