Britain’s Daughters and America’s Daughters
A foreigner-made documentary called “India’s Daughter” is much in the news. What is clear is that the Government of India supported and cooperated in its production on the express understanding that the More...
Obama bats for Islamic fundamentalists
By making misleading statements and peddling misinformation, US President Barack Obama is weakening the war against jihad—which, in his scheme of things, is a figment of ‘Islamophobic’ imagination. His administration More...
The Nobel Peace Prize: was there more than meets the eye to Kailash Satyarthi’s selection?
Let me be quite up-front about a few things. One, I confess I had only vaguely heard about Kailash Satyarthi before the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 came looking for him. Two, I am as delighted as anyone else that global More...
Modi, Madison and Media
Amid the mix of the cynical, the patronizing, the downright racist and the ebullient reporting from Madison Square Garden it is easy to miss the forest for the trees. Beyond the song, dance, protests and journalist-added More...
Narendra Modi’s visa denial still an unhealed wound
Narendra Modi’s thumping electoral victory and his ascension as Prime Minister has evoked all kinds of reactions across the world—the reactions fall in the broad gamut between “how could this happen?” to More...
Narendra Modi US Visa denial: an untold story
One of the reasons for the resignation of Nancy Powell as the American ambassador to India is said to be that she did not take proactive steps in the recent past for moving towards revoking the cancellation of the More...