Turkey Downs Su-24: What Went Wrong Over Syria?
The downing of a Russian Su-24 by the Turkish Air Force is a reminder of the harsh reality of wars in the Middle East. Unlike the Vietnam or Korean Wars – when downed pilots could safely eject without fear of being shot at from the ground – the rules are different when you have opponents like the Islamic State and Turkey. In fact, the only rule More...
Acchhe Din Are Already Here
Jawaharlal Nehru ruled as Prime Minister from 1947-64 and laid such amazing economic foundations that we went bankrupt in 1991. His daughter Indira Gandhi comes second in the number of years ruled and has the worst More...
To Which Country Will Aamir Khan Migrate?
Film star Aamir Khan’s wife believes that the Narendra Modi government has been such a calamity that she wants to leave India—and he doesn’t disagree with her over the issue of ‘growing intolerance’ in More...
Nehru As Seen By A Hindu Nationalist
Intellectual Warrior of Post-Nehruvian India The late Sita Ram Goel, historian, thinker and creator of the publishing houses, Voice of India and Aditya Prakashan was a fighter par excellence for nationalist causes More...
The Elephant in the Room – I
Prologue In a letter dated 14 October 2015, the Minister of State (Environment, Forests and Climate Change; henceforth MoEF & CC in the series), Shri Prakash Javadekar wrote to the Minister of Women and Child More...
Indian Secularism Views Indian Muslims As Pakistanis
Secularism as practised in India is a threat to Indian Muslims as this essay will demonstrate. As per purely academic definitions, there are primarily two meanings of secularism. First, it is a movement of ideas More...
A Very American Tradition
The first thing that strikes about the place is how cold and quiet it is. For a place with 25 workers, there is hardly any banter, or the usual complaints about pay. And then you notice the long row. Of turkeys. More...
What Is The True Legacy Of Indira Gandhi?
A popular phrase I’ve often heard Hindi speakers use is ‘Jo Dikta Hain Wohi Bikta Hain’ meaning ‘That Which Is Seen Can Be Sold’ similar to the phrase ‘Seeing Is Believing.’ The selling product can More...
Is Brand Tata Losing its Way?
“When people think of brand qualities such as value for money, reliability and so on, they are thinking with their minds. But when they think about what Tata does for India, they are thinking with their hearts.” More...
Hypocrisy and Indian History: A Public Statement
A public statement by concerned Indian historians, archaeologists and scholars of Indian civilization. On 26 October, 53 Indian historians voiced alarm at what they perceived to be the country’s “highly vitiated More...