Argentina’s Isol wins world’s biggest children’s book prize
STOCKHOLM | Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:27pm IST (Reuters) – Argentinian author and illustrator Isol won the world’s biggest prize for children’s literature on Tuesday with the jury for the Astrid Lindgren More...
‘Historian Romila Thapar’s Dogmas’
Column by Dr. Vijaya Rajiva Romila Thapar has entered her 80s and the favourite historian of Indian Marxist circles and as well the feted and decorated icon of certain sections of the international scholarly jet More...
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...
INDO-EUROPEANS 3: NOAH’S ANIMALS MARCH
Favorable climate and abundant water made India and Southeast Asia a hothouse for the domestication of plants and animals. The second wave of Indo-Europeans carried these into Eurasia and Europe. The controversy 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...
Darlymple joins Karnad’s ‘Hate Naipaul Campaign’
Girish Karnad cannot hold a candle to V.S. Naipaul as a writer. His attacking Naipaul at a major literary event is an attempt to step out of obscurity and gain some limelight that his talent does not merit. Dalrymple More...
Pigeons set China Congress security plans aflutter
Potentially sinister threats to China’s ruling Communist Party sit unnoticed in cages perched on a rooftop above a small alleyway in southwestern Beijing. Not dissidents. Pigeons. Pigeons fly next to a Chinese More...
No more Mr. Clean II: The Coalgate Conspiracy
The UPA Government’s OPERATION COALGATE, selling off thorium, as well as starving the solar power sector was a deliberate plan to create energy scare and sign the Indo-U.S. deal to sell obsolete nuclear technology More...
Unity of India is of untold antiquity
Column by Virendra Parekh - India’s cultural unity goes back to Vedic times. Even when politically divided, the goal was always to unite it under a single chatra. There is no basis to the claim that India was More...
