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...
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...
Holi: Experience the colors of India
Holi, is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus. Holi is also known as festival of Colours. It is primarily observed in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and countries with large Indic diaspora populations More...
Three activists injured in clash with Japanese whalers
Sydney (Australia) – Three anti-whaler activists happened to be injured Wednesday in a clash between Japanese whalers and protesters in the Southern Ocean. The clash took place in the seas about 300 miles 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...
Players are overworked, wants rotation policy: Dhoni
PTI | Manchester – Hit hard by injuries woes in the disastrous tour of England so far, Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today conceded that the players were overworked as he called for a rotation policy More...
The Arab Upsurge and Need for a New Path
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz – Neil Buckley, writing in the London Financial Times of August 18, compared the wave of insurrectionary upheavals that has shaken the Arab lands with the “color revolutions” More...
Dream come true, or perhaps not
Column M.J. Akbar - The little patch of London I encounter is watching cricket and talking Rupert Murdoch. The colour of language matches the English sky; grey, rather than black and white. Media is not devil-black, More...
Goodbye waka waka
From Ronaldo to Rooney, it has been a World Cup of disaster for superstars. Even the ‘super’ teams like Brazil and Italy failed to fire. Arunava Chaudhuri looks back at the sporting extravaganza to get the More...
Tushar Gandhi hits the silver screen
Tushar Gandhi, the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, is making his debut on silver screen in the forthcoming film, Road to Sangam. Working with stalwarts like Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Pavan Malhotra and Swati Chitnis, More...
