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
As a successful chartered accountant with an evolved sense of responsibility regarding the crisis engendered in the world by the growing number of fiscal scandals that are sending nations, societies and people into crisis, M.R. Venkatesh has issued a clarion wake-up cal to Indian society with his seminal Sense, Sensex … 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
The story of Swami Aseemanand, the anti-Christian conversion crusader of Dangs, Gujarat, who reputedly mentored but did not join in the ‘Hindu terrorist’ blasts against overtly Islamic targets at some sites across the country – on a staggeringly shoe-string budget, with paltry sums like Rs 25,000/- and Rs 40,000/- mentioned … Read More
The twentieth century saw the eruption of total conflict in two World Wars which were unprecedented in scope and scale and havoc thus caused. Near the end of the Second World War, America used nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which brought about a staggering paradigm … Read More
Even as serious differences emerge among Kashmiri separatists, there are disturbing signals that hitherto marginalized leaders and groups may be brewing a new confrontation with the Indian nation. Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik has urged the people to converge at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk on Jan. 26 to unfurl … Read More
The Indian community in Malaysia has the highest suicide rates in the country, as compared to other ethnic groups. It is 600% higher than the Malay Muslim community, and is certainly attributable to the fact that the burden of life is heaviest on Indians owing to their pathetic socio-economic status. … Read More
