Questions for Amnesty International’s Christine Mehta
In an article in the Hindu dated 2 July 2015, a certain Christine Mehta, an employee of Amnesty International and an American citizen, has interesting things to say. She describes the situation in which her OCI card was revoked and she was required to leave India. We would like to place a few questions before Ms. Mehta, solely on the basis of the conditions More...
Tripura: A Success Story
Tripura is one of India’s North-eastern states. It is bordered by Bangladesh on three sides, with only the western part connected to India. The state figured prominently in the works of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath More...
Uber-Liberal Op-ed Template on #SelfieWithDaughter
Take a picture with your child, #Despitehavingadaughter; take a selfie with your child and then share it with the world via Twitter showing how proud you are of your child #Despitehavingadaughter. Now that’s a More...
The caste system is a colonial idea
It was primarily under colonial Christian rule that the caste system as we know it today was defined, shaped and a narrative built around it. It’s time for India to take back the caste narrative in its own hands. More...
The BBC and its chums stress out over Yoga
One just can’t make this up! If money–grubbing rip-off merchants like the trendy lowlives in Europe and the USA who make a fortune out of Yoga or even a cool hippie or Hilary Clinton were to run a Yoga More...
The Lalit Modi-Sushma-Raje Saga – Lessons for the BJP
For two weeks now, prime time TV debates have revolved around Lalit Modi (LM) and his politician friends. A Sunday Times London report referred to Sushma Swaraj’s assistance to LM. The ball then moved at rocket More...
Lessons of the Indian Emergency
The history of India’s twenty one month Emergency is too well known to need detailed recounting. It began in June 1975, suspending civil liberties and allowed the government to rule by decree. In fact it ushered More...
Three Heroes of Emergency
The final hours of 25 June were detrimental for our country as the then PM Indira Gandhi decided that it was better to put our sacred democracy in comatose than fighting honourably. As we mourn the momentary demise More...
Never Forget the Darkness: Emergency @ 40
India’s strength has always been its vibrant democracy. Ours is perhaps the only country where people from contrastingly different castes, creed, religion and race live together in peace and harmony. The Crime More...
Emergency @ 40: A Dictator removes two elected Chief Ministers
‘Once a dictator always a dictator’ can be said to be a truism suitable for the late former Prime Minister of India Smt Indira Gandhi. Like any leader, she had her highs and lows, more lows to be fair. Among More...