Factbox: List of key National Film Awards winners
NEW DELHI – The National Film Awards for the year 2012 were announced on Monday with 38 films in 14 languages honoured in the feature film categories. Actor Annu Kapoor in a still from the movie “Vicky 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
SL Bhyrappa on Distorting History – Marxist Monopoly (Part 2)
Introduced and edited by Navaratna Rajaram, Contributing Editor, Folks Magazine Editor’s Note: In his previous column S.L. Bhyrappa recounted his experience while serving on a government appointed committee that More...
