Sagarika Ghose maybe liable for contempt of court
Instance: Criticizing the recent Supreme Court Judgment on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, where the SC held that the Section 377—which criminalizes carnal intercourse against the order of nature—does More...
Tehelka is the UPA of media
The relationship between Tehelka and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was more than symbiotic. Of course, both benefited each other; both are Left-leaning; but the hallmark and the conspicuous More...
The Ayodhya movement: a trip down memory lane
Romila Thapar, most eminent among India’s eminent historians, protested against the Court verdict acknowledging the historical evidence that the Babar mosque in Ayodhya had been built in forcible replacement More...
A G Noorani calls Sardar Patel a Communalist
Assertion: The latest cover story of Frontline is a lengthy essay by A.G. Noorani that purports to prove that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a communalist based on a “documented record.” As part of More...
Legal Opinion: Can Tejpal seek transfer of investigation?
Tarun Tejpal’s latest ploy of blaming the BJP for implicating him in the rape case is now the news doing the rounds. That Tejpal, on that ground, has sought the transfer of the investigation from the Goa police More...
The Masked Ball of the Secularist Stormtroopers
Nemesis is a strange phenomenon. It is a silent companion for the mighty and the wicked, as they carry on their criminal capers for decades and some. Then, suddenly, it strikes. Like the bolt from the blue, or the More...
Tarun Tejpal’s Blitz of Sleaze Sputters
The Argentine team of the 1990 Soccer World Cup was a great example of a consortium of the young and the old fighting together for glory on the soccer pitches. Led by the snazzy Maradona, the team went on to be More...
What's wrong with the Indian public discourse
Whilst preparing the nationalistic upsurge against the foreign regime of Alexander of Macedonia in the territory of erstwhile Bharat, (that included the present day Afghanistan or the Af-Pak Region), the celebrated More...