Another Godhra in the Making?
I am beginning to worry about India’s national security in the wake of the Pakistani terrorist attacks on Gurdaspur and Udhampur as well as rumbles about cyber security, and the Taliban advance on Kunduz. Gurdaspur More...
Media Hypocrisy over Dadri
What just happened in Dadri is very tragic, if you go by the media reports. A Muslim man was dragged out of his house and lynched by an enraged Hindu mob because he and his family were suspected of eating beef in More...
The Five Testifiers
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced plans to visit Silicon Valley later this month, a petition of sorts was floated by a bunch of US-based academics urging Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to boycott the Prime More...
Showcasing North-East India Through Music and Dance
During the last couple of years been fortunate to attend festivals across India namely Sangai in Imphal, Hornbill in Kohima, Hampi, Jaisalmer Desert, Bundi, Dev Deepavali in Kashi and Trissurpooram in Kerala. These More...
Patidar Reservation, or an attempt to divide Gujarati Asmita on caste lines?
After much delay Census Report of 2011 was made public and before we could ponder over the data stating that the Hindu population has for the first time dropped below the psychological barrier of 80 percent, news More...
Bihar Election Analysis: Parivartan Likely to Triumph Over Parivar
[contextly_sidebar id=”8769c5dI4MrO3dpr2mC6n5C9xOGpVGaN”] In continuation of the series on the upcoming watershed Bihar assembly election, let us examine the developments in the last few weeks and try More...
Raza Rumi – When Silence is Murder
In Pakistan, there are liberals and there are fake liberals. An average Indian does not recognize this distinction. The true liberals uphold a sense of ethics and morality in speech and writings and work for the More...
Bihar Staring at Jungleraj 2.0
With gradual optimism being felt on multiple fronts in terms of governance at the national level, Bihar might be staring at a future full of gloom and darkness. The threat of the state being pushed back by another More...
Narendra Modi Shifts Momentum in Bihar: Jitters in Janata Parivar
In continuation of the IndiaFacts series on the upcoming Bihar assembly election, we can now examine the battle that increasingly looks fierce and promising. The consensus of most political observers is that it More...
Examining the Indo-Bangla Land Boundary Agreement
This paper is coauthored by Shanmukh Nag and Dikgaj. Introduction The Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) has been recently concluded between the governments of India and Bangladesh, with the Modi government and the More...