After virtually squandering away the opening to Teheran by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Congress-led UPA has seen the light and invited Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad to drop by on his way back from Colombo. It is to be hoped that the restoration of cordialities will be followed … Read More
Caste is once again the main menu on the professional middle class table, with the Supreme Court clearing 27% quotas for OBCs in education. There is heartburning over whether educational backwardness ends at the graduate or post-graduate level. This time, however, caste identities and animosities are definitely muted, with the … Read More
There is something deeply suspicious about Ms. Priyanka Vadra’s secret visit to Vellore on 19 March 2008 to meet Nalini Sriharan, a member of the LTTE squad that assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on 21 May 1991. Earlier, it was revealed that Ms. Vadra had slipped away from her … Read More
As water-starved Haryana urges the Oil and Natural Gas Commission for drilling machines to rediscover the paleo channels in which the once-mighty Saraswati may be flowing silently, it may solve one of the most vexatious issues of Indian history. Plagued with water disputes with Punjab and Rajasthan, the state where … Read More
Tamil Nadu’s DMK regime could easily win the prize for the most original intellectual initiatives in the country. First it rewrote the history of Indian civilization. Sri Rama is a figment of the imagination of Aryan Hindus, superimposed upon the Dravidian culture of Tamil Nadu. He never built the Setu … Read More
Former US national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, once a powerful proponent of American supremacy in the Gulf, now leads the pack wanting Washington out of Baghdad fast. A key advisor of Democrat presidential aspirant Barrack Obama, Brzezinski recently argued in The Washington Post that it is time to end the … Read More
New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned after a government leak about his involvement in a sex scandal, was reportedly stung by a White House-Wall Street nexus to silence his relentless criticism of their handling of the current financial crisis. Observers predict at least 2.5 million American families may … Read More
Soon after organised violence began in Tibet on 14 March 2008, the 49th anniversary of the March 1959 uprising, intelligence experts observed that the evidence suggested that the Lhasa uprising was “pre-planned and well orchestrated.” The riots were clearly timed to embarrass China on the eve of the Olympic torch … Read More
On 26 October 1947, Shri Hari Singh, Maharajadhiraj of Jammu and Kashmir and Naresh Tatha Tibbet adi Deshadhipathi, executed the Instrument of Accession to India, which was accepted the next day by Mountbatten of Burma, Governor-General of India. Its most remarkable – and unspoken – aspect is that it pertains … Read More
In the midst of forced celebrations over Sonia Gandhi’s decade as Congress president and ‘certificates’ that her foreign origins no longer matter, some facts are too stark to be ignored. The first is that Ms. Gandhi’s foreign origins are more relevant than ever as they are directly influencing the country’s … Read More
