Film on Delhi gang rape to help change mindset
By Sujoy Dhar KOLKATA | Mon Mar 25, 2013 7:19pm IST (Reuters) – A Bengali film-maker inspired by the December protests over the gang rape of a 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist in New Delhi is hoping 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...
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...
India, Pakistan seal accord to ease visa restrictions
Report by Annie Banerji, NEW DELHI | Sat Dec 15, 2012 3:15am IST (Reuters) – India and Pakistan sealed an agreement to ease tough visa restrictions for travellers on Friday as the nuclear-armed neighbours More...
Peace, but with justice
Column by M.J. Akbar - Since an improvement in bilateral relations was clearly not on Pakistan interior minister Rehman Malik’s agenda, why did he come to India? There has to be some rational reason. Tourism offers 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...
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...
Goodbye yesterday, welcome tomorrow
Column by M.J. Akbar One of the minor games of public life is decoding the difference between what a politician says and what he means. Bal Thackeray, who founded the cadre-based Shiv Sena in 1966, and nurtured 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...
Washington’s revenge
Column by M.J. Akbar When Abraham Lincoln was told at the height of the devastating civil war that his most successful general, Ulysses Grant, was drinking too much he wanted to know the brand of Grant’s favourite More...
