Legendary Indian sitarist, composer Ravi Shankar dead at 92
Report by Jill Serjeant and Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES | Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:03am EST (Reuters) – Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations 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...
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...
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...
Unity of India is of untold antiquity
Column by Virendra Parekh - India’s cultural unity goes back to Vedic times. Even when politically divided, the goal was always to unite it under a single chatra. There is no basis to the claim that India was More...
‘Eminent Historians’ or Criminals in Scholar’s Robes?
Column by N.S. Rajaram (Contributing Editor) In his article on Romila Thapar, Professor D.K. Chakrabarti remarked that “since the coming of this group to power [at the Indian Council of Historical Studies], the More...
Kashmir 1947– what really happened?
Guest column by Sandhya Jain - Kashmir interlocutors: perpetuating Nehru’s blunder By suddenly inviting debate on the interlocutors report on Jammu and Kashmir, especially its startling suggestion to restore More...
Romila Thapar and the Study of Ancient India I: Nationalism as a dirty word
Column by Dilip K Chakrabarti. Edited with comments by Dr. N.S. Rajaram, Contributing Editor, Folks Magazine. Background: Professor Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti was until recently professor of history and South Asian More...
Ever Irrational Indian National Congress
The Congress party that was founded by an Englishman may be ended by an Italian woman. It has always looked to foreigners and foreign sources for inspiration. Recent election results show that this ploy of projecting More...
