Pakistan is crumbling, Is India Prepared?
Reports from Pakistan indicate that institutions of the state are heading for collapse. The Indian leadership represented by the inept troika of Sonia-Manmohan-Rahul seems indifferent, concerned about protecting 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...
India sees deficit challenge due to subsidies, stake sales
Report by Manoj Kumar and Arup Roychoudhury, NEW DELHI | Mon Dec 17, 2012 2:49pm IST (Reuters) – India said uncertainty over stake sales in state-run companies and soaring subsidies pose a challenge to reducing More...
Indian state vote may be first step to Modi versus Gandhi face-off
Report by Ross Colvin and Satarupa Bhattacharjya, NEW DELHI | Wed Dec 12, 2012 4:40pm EST (Reuters) – India’s Gujarat state will hold a potentially game-changing vote on Thursday that could help decide More...
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...
Sydney Wignall and the Chinese built Aksai Chin road
The story of how Jawaharlal Nehru and Krishna Menon kept the country in the dark about the Chinese incursion in Aksai Chin even though they had been fully informed. Later reports were kept sealed to protect Nehru’s 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...
Obama, Dobama, And the Price of Ignorance
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz India has hanged Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, for his involvement in the infamous terror assault on Mumbai in 2008. The Islamabad government, which subsidizes 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...
