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...
India must emphasize excellence to reverse slide
“Indians are slipping badly in crucial fields like science and mathematics. This is the result of pandering to weakness instead of encouraging excellence. India needs achievers as leaders and role models, More...
Who Brought Freedom, Gandhi or Netaji?
Editor’s Word: Penned by Dr. NS Rajaram in the year 2010, this story is relevant even to this day. Enumerating several contributions of Netaji – as Subhas Chandra Bose was fondly known – it is More...
Mahatma Metamorphosis
It is a little known fact that until the end of the First World War Mahatma Gandhi was a strong supporter of both the British Empire and the military. He became the Apostle of Nonviolence only after Tilak died More...
Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright
Column by M.J. Akbar - In the loneliness of the small town where I was born, and the shuttered years of boarding school, dream was a five-letter word called Tiger. Mansur Ali Khan’s magic transcended the supreme More...
Varun Gandhi to present Jan Lokpal Bill in LS
Varun Gandhi IANS | New Delhi – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi Friday said he would introduce the Jan Lokpal Bill, drafted by Team Anna, as a private member’s bill in the Lok Sabha. More...
Photographs retrace the Dandi route
Artists on the march By Satarupa Paul – On 12 March, 1930, the Father of the Nation, M.K. Gandhi, started out on foot from his ashram in Sabarmati and reached Dandi, a small village by the Arabian Sea, More...
Now, freedom from some Indians please
Indian Flag | Illustration: Prince Pal We lost the central hinge of the plot on 15 August 1947. We thought that raising the tricolour over Edwina and Lord Louis Mountbatten’s palace marked the end of the More...
Arun Shourie writes his heart out!
Arun Shourie In his many roles – as economist, politician, author and newspaper editor – Arun Shourie has been a high-profile figure for decades, but one important aspect of his life has been largely shielded More...
Mark this Antony
Column by M.J. Akbar - Unqualified, unmitigated congratulations to All India Radio. The government’s official broadcaster was not fooled by a mere communiqué from the All India Congress Committee, even when More...
