SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF 10 JANPATH
Following their return from Pakistan Sarabjit Singh’s relatives have charged that the Sonia-Manmohan Singh Government failed to support them and put no pressure on the Pakistani Government to stop its atrocities. This is consistent with Sonia Gandhi’s decades-long deference to Islamist forces even in the face of the most severe provocation. This More...
On reading the signs of Vox Populi
Sensing the body language of the public is rarely among the abilities its rulers master. And if they do, many a time the preferred posture is burying their heads into the sand. Which explains why there are so many More...
The Real War in South Asia
Column by Dr. Richard L. Benkin Dinajpur police confirm attack on village Trained as a social scientist, I learned that if a factor appears in event after event, ignoring it is intellectually dishonest and ineffective More...
The return of Maut Ka Saudagar
Column by N.S. Rajaram Perhaps unnerved by Rahul Gandhi’s fiasco of the speech at the CII, and the simultaneous rise of Narendra Modi, the Congress is increasingly resorting to personal attacks. Recently, it has More...
A Latin response to Latin America
Column by M.J. Akbar Karol Jozef Wojtyla, the first non-Italian Pope in more than four centuries, did not get elected to the throne in 1978 merely through a throw of electoral dice. The central purpose of his papacy More...
Busting Myths on Weight loss
By Shamira Pujani Weight is almost every individual’s concern, regardless of age or sex. The obsession with weight or being ‘thin’ begins as early as eight years and continues throughout. In the early years More...
NEW GENERATION LEADERSHIP MUST PUT NATIONAL SECURITY FIRST
The UPA Government has essentially catered to the need and greed of a narrow class of favorites. It has tried to stay in power by populist but economically unsound measures NREGA. Now it is endangering national More...
‘Historian Romila Thapar’s Dogmas’
Column by Dr. Vijaya Rajiva Romila Thapar has entered her 80s and the favourite historian of Indian Marxist circles and as well the feted and decorated icon of certain sections of the international scholarly jet More...
Pakistan is crumbling, Is India Prepared?
Reports from Pakistan indicate that institutions of the state are heading for collapse. The Indian leadership represented by the inept troika of Sonia-Manmohan-Rahul seems indifferent, concerned about protecting More...
Beyond 2012: The old order changeth
The 1912 elections are a preview of the coming crumbling feudal political order put together by Jawaharlal Nehru and his political heirs. The country is on the verge of a major political overhaul. Dynastic rule More...
