Since RTI campaigner Arvind Kejriwal was micro-managing Anna Hazare’s drive for a Lokpal Bill conforming to one drafted by select activists claiming to represent civil society, and as this Bill will yield an institutional structure giving sweeping powers to a certain ideological clique, it may be in order to demand … Read More
In the wake of an orchestrated frenzy to achieve a particular legal structure against official corruption, it is pertinent to ask all political parties if they are willing to abolish Parliament and representative government, and entrust power to a coterie of NGOs with overt and covert Western support. Anna Hazare’s … Read More
The tragedy of the earthquake-tsunami induced failure at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, eerily close to the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, is a grim warning that nuclear holocaust could come to us without a nuclear attack. Stoically holding fort amidst the creeping nuclear mushroom, Japanese authorities have informed … Read More
Fallout of the dwindling Dyarchy Amidst the stench of corruption and malfeasance rising from the second political innings of the UPA coalition headed by Manmohan Singh but presided over by the Italian-born Sonia Gandhi comes a startling revelation – the unremarkable Robert Vadra, small time exporter of artificial jewellery and … Read More
The Supreme Court’s decision to set parameters for withdrawal of medically unproductive aid to terminally ill patients would have been truly rewarding if the august Court had not fallen into the Abrahamic mindset of viewing life in opposition to death, disregarding India’s civilisational ethos which sees life and death as … Read More
In a rare move expected to go a long way in ensuring environmental accountability by giant multinational corporations, the Kerala Assembly on 24 Feb. 2011 unanimously passed a bill to set up a Special Tribunal to determine the compensation to be paid by Coca Cola for pollution caused in Plachimada, … Read More
The month-long face-off between Islamabad and Washington over the arrest of undercover CIA agent Raymond Davis for murdering two ISI operatives on 27 Jan. in Lahore could trigger the collapse of American influence in the region. Even if ties are mended for now, the White House will have to revisit … Read More
If it is true, as credible sources suggest, that JNU professor Amitabh Mattoo has joined the Congress Party as a prelude to elevation as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (a post vacated by the controversial Shashi Tharoor), then the move must be viewed as an expression of the ruling … Read More
Great Britain, mother of Western colonialism whose footprints still deface the world, admits it cannot cope with citizen-adherents of a sister faith unless they accept the primacy of her Anglican Christian culture, while practicing their religion in private. In other words, national identity will be determined by the ‘core values’ … Read More
The Supreme Court shocked the Hindu community when on 25 Jan. 2011, it succumbed to pressure from Christian activists and modified its 21 Jan. 2011 judgment in the Graham Staines murder case, without the filing of a curative petition by any party to the case; without notice to the lawyers … Read More
