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 popular revolts in mankind’s history. And why revolution shall be with us until such time when a fair and just socio-political system 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...
Owaisi’s rant: Provocative Politics or Everlasting Hatred?
Its politics and provocation are rooted in the delusion that Muslims were the original rulers of India and the British stole the country from them and handed it to the infidel Hindus. The complete silence of Sonia More...
Modi phenomenon and the two Indias
Modi is seen as the leader by doers and achievers while he is hated by hangers on with colonial values who depend on patronage from the ruling family calling itself the Congress. They fear having to live in a world More...
1962 war without a map— Chaos at the top, disaster in the field
In this the fiftieth year of India’s border war with China, it is everyone’s duty to learn the truth about not only went wrong with the conduct of the war on the Indian side but also the errors of omission and More...
Sydney Wignall and the Chinese built Aksai Chin road
The story of how Jawaharlal Nehru and Krishna Menon kept the country in the dark about the Chinese incursion in Aksai Chin even though they had been fully informed. Later reports were kept sealed to protect Nehru’s More...
Suppressing your freedom: from Nehru to Internet
Guest column by R Vaidyanathan There has been huge consternation and hand-wringing by legal and other experts about section 66A of the Information Act 2000, as amended in 2008, and which got the presidential assent More...
Heraldgate: Facts of the case
Guest column by Subramanian Swamy The daily explosion of scams and their nightly celebration over noisy TV shows have dulled the collective response. No wonder, the biggest of them — the Gandhi family’s illegal More...
