By admitting him into an insane asylum. Yeah, he’s not (my mistake, confusing him for the original, Yoginder Yadav) the same statistical evil genius that the Congress party employs to get the pre-poll/exit poll predictions it wants. He now froths like a mongrel in heat but getting none.
…the possibility of some hapless Muslim victims of [...]

Driving on National Highway 4 towards Tumkur shows several milestones of history erected so high and steep that you are compelled to listen to their story. Nijagal is such a milestone. It is an imposing, rocky hill that stares at your back miles after you’ve driven past it. I stopped and it made a substantial [...]

35th attempt in less than a year.
132-plus infiltration attempts again, in less than a year.

Says this Indian Express report.

Less than a fortnight after Pakistan promised to stop cross-border firing, its troops on Tuesday shelled Indian posts, again violating the ceasefire along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir…The ceasefire violation and [...]

This blog wishes you all a Happy, Prosperous and Safe Deepavali.

Celebrate this festival of lights without crackers. Enough have exploded in four years.

I spent most of the last week working behind the scenes to foolproof my blog against its periodic bursts of becoming not reachable. Hence I haven’t really dwelt upon the new mischief concerning Malegaon. Meanwhile, here’s Chandan Mitra, on how the media and secular fundamentalists creates bogyes because they have no concrete evidence to brand [...]

Meera beautifully weighs in with an open letter to Aravind Adiga. It proves one my pet-peeve theories that the biggest intellectual celebrity is also the one with zero commonsense.

I have read much about how you came to write this book. You have been quoted as saying,” So, where’s this Shining India everyone’s talking about? It [...]

In the beginning of an essay on contemporary literary criticism, S.L. Bhyrappa dissects a Kannada short story, entitled Rotti (a dish made of rice flour) and cites numerous similar stories written in that vein. He observes that the story, like U.R. Anantha Murthy’s novel, Bharatipura is merely a filler of a pre-set pattern, a template. [...]

My heart goes out to Vir Sanghvi. His article dripping with poor understanding, phony liberalism and pseudo concern for the health of the Indian society finally melts into a boiling concoction of a shabby advocacy of conversions. He starts off in tone that conveys both agitation and sympathy.
Every single Hindu I know has been deeply [...]

Kanchan Gupta’s superb piece on why it won’t pay to give Iran the non-permanent security council seat. The foremost, nay only reason is the rabid Ahmadinejad, who thundered thus at the General Assembly.
The dignity, integrity and rights of the American and European people are being played with by a small but deceitful number of [...]

It is Vijayadashami here in Karnataka, a hallowed tradition that celebrates both the victory and renewal of the spirit of Sanatana Dharma in South India. A tradition handed down to us from the time Harihara established the Vijaynagar empire after defeating the marauding Islamic armies that threatened to sweep the entire South India. It won’t [...]