Earlier this month, Priyanka Vadra Gandhi met Nalini to “come to terms with her father’s death,” etc. Noble sentiments. A heart-warming gesture. However, not everybody was happy.
Even 17 years after Rajiv’s assassination, the families of most of the 14 victims who died along with Rajiv are yet to get any compensation promised by the Central [...]
The Crown Prince, heir-apparent, and India’s Prime Minister-in-waiting asks with great gravity:
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi put a poser before non-government organizations (NGOs) and tribal youth cadre of the party during his stay in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bastar region – ‘Why is Maoism growing in the state?‘
I find it really funny. But I can understand the Prince’s [...]
We are witnesses to far gorier atrocities than this.
On the day he decided to run away, 9-year-old Coli awoke on a filthy mat. Like a pup, he lay curled against the cold, pressed between dozens of other children sleeping head-to-toe on the concrete floor. His T-shirt was damp with the dew that seeped through the [...]
This shows how India gifted Nepal to China. While most in the mainstream media gloat about the victory of democracy, free and fair elections, etc nobody wants to see behind the curtain.
India gifts Nepal to China
Balbir K Punj
The UPA Government can now flaunt one more ‘achievement’ along with inflation, deceleration in rate of growth and [...]
The JNU marsh breeds uniform offsping in an assembly line fashion. Although unrelated, this “op-ed” is a close cousin of Sagarika Ghose. Template again. The directive from the top seems to be: bat for Mayawati, and the Dalits but yell at her when she creates trouble for the Congress party .
The op-ed is [...]
It’s raining Tibetan protests worldwide. I have equal love for China and Pakistan. But what’s wrong with the Verbal Terrorist?
NDA leader George Fernandes and author Arundhati Roy will join hundreds of Tibetans in a torch relay parallel to the Olympic flame run in the Capital on Thursday.
The Verbal Terrorist has featured countless times on this [...]
Great men are known for greater quirks. So it is with Karunanidhi–I leave his greatness to both your imagination and evaluation. A brief background before this.
In the Hindu tradition, one of the ways greatness is measured is by suffixing pravartaka (literally, converter, precedent-setter etc). Sages were honoured with titles like Gotra Pravartaka (givers of [...]
On its front page, CNN-IBN proudly features its nomination to some Webby award as “as one of the world’s best news websites.” If ever there was an award for being the most biased, casteist, and communal (all its terms, defined by itself) media house, it would win the award every single year. The latest Exhibit: [...]
The Mohammadan conquest with its propagandist work and later the Christian missionary movement attempted to shake the stability of Hindu society and in an age deeply conscious of instability, authority naturally became the rock on which alone it seemed that social safety and ethical order could be reared. The Hindu, in face of the [...]
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