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...
Rajiv Laroia & P. P. Hegde now FOLKS MAGAZINE’s Editorial Board Members
Padma Prasad Hegde (L) and Rajiv Laoria (R) are now part of Folks Magazine’s Editorial Board. Panaji (GOA) December 29, 2012 – U. Mahesh Prabhu, Founder and Editor-in-chief of Folks Magazine (www.folks.co.in) 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...
Veteran actor A.K. Hangal dead at 95
Indian actor Hangal receives Padma Bhushan award from President Abdul Kalam in New Delhi (Reuters) – One of Bollywood’s most well-known character actors, A.K. Hangal died Sunday morning, Indian media More...
Bedtime story for a political fantasist
Column by M.J. Akbar - This story is true, for I do not possess the fabulous imagination necessary to make it up. Nor, I think, do the editors of the British paper the Sunday Times, where I read it. A Russian More...
India’s Energy Famine 1— The Solar Promise
This is first of two parts article by Navaratna Srinivas Rajaram India may be on the brink of an energy famine. Solar power used in conjunction with existing power plants and the proposed river linking network More...
Democracy in India: First Fifty Years (Part 1)
The evolution of Indian democracy in the first fifty years as seen from two perspectives— social and political. National parties have yielded to Mandalized politics leading to the rise of regional parties. Navaratna More...
Lokpal and Aadhaar: Why does the political class oppose them?
Column by Bhamy V. Shenoy - Despite the nation wide protests by the literate class and the hunger strikes by Anna Hazare, the Lokpal bill failed to become a law in 2011. While the media has been critical of the More...
Power of Love, and Love of Power
Columnist M.J. Akbar – Every good election contributes something to folklore. Uttar Pradesh is the land of lore; and the turbulence of its politicians is matched only by the sardonic wit of its voters. The More...
Appeasement or Surrender: Where is India Headed?
“The murky campaign that scuttled Salman Rushdie’s program raises questions about its will to fight terrorism. The Gandhi family’s secrecy and diversion over issues that affect national security and world More...
