President Kalam’s shocking decision to return the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Bill 2006 for reconsideration under Article 111 is a major reprieve for the beleaguered Prime Minister. Though superficially an embarrassment for the UPA regime, the President’s refusal to endorse the wholesale exemption of certain posts from the purview … Read More
Caste electorates, on the lines of the British Raj’s notorious communal electorates, may well be the next atrocity that the Sonia Gandhi-led UPA inflicts upon the nation in its search for a foolproof and captive votebank, as Congress braces itself for an inevitable mid-term poll. The writing on the wall … Read More
Three Vatican-affiliated satrapies have unilaterally banned the Hollywood blockbuster, Da Vinci Code, thereby affirming paramount loyalty to Il Papa as opposed to the Indian nation. Nagaland, as is well known, was among the first states in which foreign Christian missionaries armed, trained and inspired tribal converts to secede from New … Read More
It must have come as a surprise to Information & Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmushi that India’s supposedly small Roman Catholic community can field two hundred organizations to protest the screening of the Hollywood blockbuster, Da Vinci Code, based on Dan Brown’s bestselling novel by the same name. Certainly it would … Read More
The countdown for an early demise of the UPA regime has begun. As of now, there is great secrecy over whether the National Advisory Council (NAC) will eventually be exempted from the purview of the ‘office of profit,’ whether Ms. Sonia Gandhi will return as chairperson if her cabinet rank … Read More
The Union Minister for Minority Affairs’ determination to impose minority status upon Jainas has come has a shock to a community that has long regarded itself as the cream of Hindu society. Obviously, Mr. A.R. Antulay is only continuing the UPA policy of fragmenting the nation by offering reservations to … Read More
Even in his last cogent moments, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan proved he was made of a different mettle. Far from losing his nerve at the unexpected dastardly attack upon him, Mr. Mahajan kept his wits about him, directing his wife to call close relations and take him to … Read More
Under the guise of human rights and freedom of religion, America has for some time been promoting certain Dalit activists, who regularly report to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and the US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, about India’s internal affairs. Now, American … Read More
Unknown to most Indians, the raging controversy over the California school textbooks being challenged by Hindu American parents is rooted in the staunch commitment of certain academics to the Biblical version of Creation. Herr Michael Witzel, whose professional reputation is linked to the Aryan Invasion Theory, which derives from a … Read More
Wipro chairman Azim Premji has firmly articulated corporate India’s dislike of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s politely veiled threat to introduce caste-based reservations in the private sector. Though other voices have been more moderate, there can be no mistaking the dismay caused by the UPA government’s insistence on imposing a non-professional, … Read More
