Sri Lanka, which gave the twentieth century its first elected woman Prime Minister, may now be taking the lead in asserting the primacy of the civilisational ethos of its native majority. It is a lesson of special significance for India, whose Hindu majority has been struggling for legitimacy in the … Read More
In the first week of October 2008, NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal lost £ 16.6 billion in the global credit crunch as stock markets took a beating. NRI metals entrepreneur Anil Agarwal lost £ 2.7 billion. Previously, as the Wall Street financial crisis began spreading its long shadow over India, … Read More
A 24-feet-tall Hanuman statue, installed at Sunset Point, Kanyakumari, on 21 September 2008, was surreptitiously removed by the Tamil Nadu administration in the wee hours of 30 September after alleged complaints from local fishermen. The task was directed by Kanyakumari district collector Jyothi Nirmala, who claimed: “the trust which installed … Read More
In the supposedly Free World, huge public protests on Wall Street to protest the $700 billion bailout plan to benefit the renegade bankers, financiers and companies who caused the crisis, has not even been mentioned by the mainstream media! This indicates the pathetic state of American media; it is also … Read More
According to a widely circulated invitation on the internet, a ‘massive demonstration rally’ will be held on 4 October 2008 in front of the UN office in New York, to protest against a ‘small group of misguided fascist ideologues and caste supremacists’ who are corrupting Indian civilisation. Perusing the stentorian … Read More
[America is over as a financial superpower; the world financial system will now be multi-polar. Many feel the crisis was caused by Anglo-Saxon greed for double-digit profits and unconscionable bonuses for bankers and company executives – Editor] The high tide of realism has finally hit Washington. Wall Street’s financial profligacy … Read More
In the heat and dust raised by the manner in which India secured a questionable waiver at the Nuclear Suppliers Group in Vienna on 6 September 2008, many opponents predicted the nuclear deal would mean only what the Americans said it would mean. A former Indian ambassador to Turkey revealed … Read More
If CPM general secretary Prakash Karat seriously hopes to derail the Indo-US nuclear deal, he would know that the only way to do this is through the political process. This involves conceiving a gigantic war strategy, which in turn involves seeking a spectrum of allies. In the Mahabharata war, no … Read More
Some things are scandalously evident in the current nuclear tamasha in the capital, even to a non-specialist like this writer. One, the drama over India getting the so-called waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group was totally engineered by the West. The purpose was to heighten tensions in New Delhi and … Read More
Ignited Hindu men, women and children, agitating for restoration of a land allotted to pilgrims to Sri Amarnath, and the very thought of a blockade-that-never-was had Kashmiri’s majority population in visible sweat. Fear showed in the eyes and voices of ‘ordinary’ traders fearing for the remuneration from their annual fruit … Read More
