Five Reasons Why They Love Ishrat Jahan
On 15 June 2004, the Pranesh-Amjad-Zeeshan encounter took place. Pranesh Pillai (a.k.a. Javed Gulam Sheikh), Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar perished at the hands of the police and inputs were received from the Intelligence Bureau which had just received a new boss in the form of Congress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. There were many things pointing More...
Nehru Was Afraid, Modi Is Not-Foreign Policy Truths!
First Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is supposed to have built the foundations for the best foreign policy that India could ever have had. It can be argued that this is untrue. It is part of the propaganda that More...
The Dumb Day
If ever one needs proof for the existence of the ability to make money by fooling gullible people, one only needs to look at the behavior of those who observe Valentine’s day. Leaving aside the fact that the More...
Science, Secularism and Saturn
Rationality is an extremely useful state of mind. Alas, it is not the only state of mind. Somewhere between rational enquiry and irrational mumbo-jumbo lies the non-rational world of art, poetry, music, mythology More...
Contours Of The Death Penalty Debate– Part I
Recently, research scholar and activist, Rohith Vemula, unfortunately committed suicide following a typical University politics drama involving the Vice Chancellor and two ‘Student Wings’ associated with different More...
Modi Haters Will Outrage And Fume Till 2019 No Matter What
India is fast changing. Power Minister Piyush Goyal is making India self-reliant. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu is transforming a monolith. Infrastructure Minister Nitin Gadkari was called Maharashtra’s “Roadkari” More...
Stormtroopers At Shani Shingnapur
The famous British mountaineer George Mallory is supposed to have replied the question “why did you want to climb Mt Everest?” with a cryptic “because it’s there”. Unfortunately the attitude that symbolized More...
Elephant In The Room III
[contextly_sidebar id=”R7O4lSrT5EFjxqRs8aXswbMPGgvji5Ps”] Kerala court releases elephant on bail ~March 12 2013, The Times of India Murder attempt on blind tusker: Killing opponent’s elephant More...
Unasked Questions On Rohith’s Suicide
Despite the reams of print ink and TV diarrhea on the death of 26-year-old student, Rohith Vemula, on January 17/18, 2016, on Hyderabad University campus, there remain unanswered questions because the unbelievable More...
Ghulam Ali Or The Politics of Ghazal
It is extremely sad that ordinary Pakistanis who want to visit the Khwaja Gharib Nawaz shrine in Ajmer or attend a literary festival in Jaipur are routinely denied visa by the intellectually bankrupt Indian diplomats, More...