Benjamin Parker in his legendary Spiderman movies says, "With great power comes great responsibility". I think our public figures must watch Spiderman more often. Probably that is what is needed to make them appreciate...

The term dictatorship is freely used these days in the national political discourse. Rahul Gandhi and his family feel that Narendra Modi is a tyrant who wants to subvert India's democracy. Arvind Kejriwal feels...

Lalu's interview in HT today makes one feel that India is perhaps a lost idea whose time is up. There is probably truth in the fact that India is the only nation in the...

Our constitution was written with the highest possible ideals. It provides for equality of citizens before law. It guarantees them liberty, justice and dignity. In theory, these are wondrous words whose magical powers should...

In 1947, an English lawyer who had never been to India and probably knew nothing of its history, geography and people, drew a line on a map of the Indian subcontinent and thus...

History belongs to the victors, they say. To put it even better, History belongs to the rulers. Those who rule, interpret history and then present it in a way that shows them in...

The mighty Maratha empire was now already tottering. Still smarting from the vicious defeat at the hands of the Afghans at Panipat, the Marathas had retreated to become some sort of a feudal...

Lord Arvind Kejriwal speaks to his devotees, perched on a platform. He towers over his worshipers and names the corrupt-the scum of Indian politics. The corrupt, who must be hounded and made to...

Thanks to the Media which is perennially suffering from Diarrhoea as far as making and selling news is concerned, Sadhus  and Shankaracharyas, claiming to represent Hinduism, have started becoming a part of the...

In 1979, as Afghanistan was being trampled under Soviet boots, the might of the Capitalist West united under the leadership of US to turn Afghanistan into the Soviet Union's Vietnam. With every passing year, the...

In school, I was taught that India was a great country that had arrived on the world scene; I was told that the world was looking towards us with hopes and aspirations. And...

Indian National Congress ka haath- Gandhi ke saath! For 60 years, Indian National Congress has deftly managed public opinion and managed to cling to power in a cacophonous democracy like India. Shockingly today,...