On the morning of July 16, 2001, NDTV telecast a breakfast meeting between some senior editors with then Pakistan president Mr Pervez Musharraf, at Agra. In this sunrise era of the electronic medium, when television genuinely broke the news (as opposed to screeched the views), one learnt that the visiting … Read More
Wikileaks exposed in 2011 what drives Valley politics: The controversy and outrage over General VK Singh’s claim that the Indian Army used slush funds to pay some Jammu and Kashmir ministers and politicians to maintain stability in the State is totally contrived, and was exposed by Wikileaks during its mega-leaks … Read More
The Supreme Court, which has taken charge of all cases pertaining to the Muzaffarnagar riots, can arrive at the truth behind the violence by directing television channels, namely, Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, and Times Now, which exposed the role played by the Uttar Pradesh administration and political leaders, to provide … Read More
There is consternation in the 16 Cavalry at Samba at the media projection that the officers and men who died in the terrorist attack in the early morning of September 26 were sitting ducks, when in reality they died heroically, putting up a protracted fight in the Officer’s Mess where … Read More
Narendra Modi today blew the Ananta Vijaya, conch shell of Prince Yudhisthira, to announce his march on Delhi as future ruler, though he promised, with Caesar-like modesty, that he would not be king (main nath nahin hoon, das hoon). Castigating the Prime Minister for weakness in projecting India’s power and … Read More
The high security Kathua District Jail and Sub Jail Hira Nagar, where several high profile Pakistani and foreign prisoners are lodged, was the intended target of the terrorist attack and the incident at Samba could have been a coordinated distraction to engage the Army while the fidayeen extracted their comrades, … Read More
At one of independent India’s largest gatherings of party workers charged with responsibility to cajole voters to the polling booths on election day, the BJP under prime ministerial contender Narendra Modi sounded the bugle for a ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’, which he claimed was the unfulfilled dream of Mahatma Gandhi. A galaxy … Read More
The Calcutta High Court’s ruling that the West Bengal Government’s grant of honorariums to imams and muezzins of mosques is unconstitutional deserves closer scrutiny than it has received, as it invokes fundamental Articles of the Constitution, including the principle of secularism, to scuttle the growing tide of appeasement of one … Read More
Communal tensions simmer under the surface of Mamata’s State West Bengal is sitting on a communal tinderbox with the Chief Minister under pressure from the minority community to run the State as per its wishes or face rout at the hustings, and incidents of confrontation between the two major communities … Read More
To the delight of his hosts, Narendra Modi’s presence at the veterans rally at Rewari, Haryana, on September 15, though previously scheduled, metamorphosed into his debut as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections. It coincided with the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s successful test-firing … Read More
