Need to extend AFSPA to Maoist territory

  The Centre must give a fitting response to the shocking ambush and murder of 25 CRPF jawans at Burkapal in the Bastar forests of Sukma district by Maoist killer squads on April 24, 2017. This is Chhattisgarh’s second deadly ambush this year; 12 CRPF jawans having been gunned down … Read More

Priyanka: Problematic explanation

  The mills of god grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s daughter, Priyanka Vadra, shot herself in the foot when she sprang into the limelight fearing an exposé in the Dhingra Commission report that has concluded that her husband, Robert Vadra, a small time exporter … Read More

Ethics, technicalities of a Sports Culture

Plans to move Sports from the State List to the Concurrent List to boost the development of sports across the country have not come a day too soon as Indian youth show attraction towards diverse sports – wrestling, badminton, tennis, football, shooting, athletics, and others. Notwithstanding the spectacular money power … Read More

Legal battle launched for Kulbhushan Jadhav

Supreme Court senior advocate and patron, J&K Panther’s Party, Prof Bhim Singh, has taken the lead in the battle for the release of Indian national, Mr Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, who was arrested in March 2016 in mysterious circumstances (most likely abducted from Chabahar, Iran), denounced as a spy fomenting trouble … Read More

Monsanto sneaks in banned GM seeds

  Agriculture multinational, Monsanto, that is doggedly pushing Genetically Modified (GM) seeds in India despite the spectacular collapse of Bt Cotton, has been fraudulently introducing Round-Up resistant GMO Cotton in a number of States, without the knowledge and approval of the statutory bodies, most notably the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee … Read More

Balochistan: Return of the Great Game

In a move that would have stunned imperial hegemons such as Winston Churchill and Olaf Caroe, Conservative Party leader Bob Blackman, on 23 March 2017 tabled Early day motion 1107 condemning Pakistan’s annexation of Gilgit-Baltistan as its Fifth Frontier. On 25 March 2017, the British Parliament passed a motion condemning … Read More

Enter Muslim voter; Exit Muslim veto

  The Uttar Pradesh assembly election grabbed national and even international eyeballs because of the unprecedented victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which its opponents had hoped to deflate in the run up to the general elections of 2019. But its most spectacular outcome was the eclipse of the ‘Muslim … Read More

Bells toll for Dynasty, Upstarts, and Media

  UP verdict shows that media never got it so wrong, and dynastic successions are not a given any more Some elections become defining moments in history. The recent polls in five States, viz., Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur, were simply scheduled elections, but the Lutyens Secular Brigade … Read More

For them, treason is ‘new Indian order’

An ambitious pilot project to trigger student unrest in university campuses across the country is now fairly discernible. Behind it are acolytes of the defused ‘new world order’ that was to climax in the victory of Hillary Clinton in November 2016. The writing on the wall showed that the world’s … Read More

Hindraf ups ante against Zakir Naik

  In a further twist to the Zakir Naik saga, Hindraf, a non-governmental organisation working for the human rights of Malaysian Hindus of Indian origin, is all set to file the first-of-its-kind Public Interest Litigation in Malaysian courts next week to compel the government to expel the televangelist Islamic preacher … Read More