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...
Rajiv Gandhi assassination: criminals rewarded?
The Rajiv Gandhi assassination is a story that refuses to disappear. Like the Kennedy assassination and that of Abraham Lincoln a century earlier new theories keep cropping up. Here is a report by Sam Rajappa, More...
Congress Calculus II: Expert Says It Is Criminal Fraud
The National Herald affair involving the Congress party, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi is not just a political scandal but a fraudulent and possibly criminal enterprise, according to the author, one of the country’s More...
Congress Calculus Brings “Roma Rajya”
Column by Sandhya Jain with introduction by Dr. N.S. Rajaram, Contributing Editor, Folks Magazine. Indian National Congress is no longer a political party. It is a family business run out of 10 Janpath in New Delhi. More...
Pigeons set China Congress security plans aflutter
Potentially sinister threats to China’s ruling Communist Party sit unnoticed in cages perched on a rooftop above a small alleyway in southwestern Beijing. Not dissidents. Pigeons. Pigeons fly next to a Chinese More...
Insight: How Sonia Gandhi was persuaded to back India reforms
(Reuters) – It had been a brutal August for India’s Congress party: economic growth was wilting, the monsoon rains were failing and the opposition had it cornered on yet another corruption scandal. In More...
PM moves to cool panic over Assam violence, thousands flee cities
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured migrants from the northeast that they were safe as thousands fled Mumbai, Bangalore and other cities on Friday, fearing a backlash from violence against Muslims in Assam. People More...
Modi and the Mahatma, who was more guilty?
Narendra Modi after Godhra and Mahatma Gandhi after the Khilafat were forced to deal with the violent aftermath. But there are striking differences between the way the two dealt with them. Also, Modi had nothing More...
Beyond Corruption II – Degradation Begets Dysfunction
Column by Navaratna S. Rajaram - The dysfunction of the state was facilitated by a systematic degradation of the values and institutions of the nation. This has encouraged the elite and the leaders to prosper by More...
The Great Wall of Silence
Column by M.J. Akbar What is the difference between Indians and Pakistanis? The answer is uncomplicated: there is no difference. We are the same people, with similar personality strengths, and parallel collective More...
