We often hear emotional appeals from a big section of people that the best way to ensure India’s safety and to ‘’discipline’’ the youth, compulsory military service should be made mandatory. Is that...

"Earlier Israel used to be spoken of like this. Now everyone knows our army can do it too and is no less capable," PM Modi told a large gathering in Mandi in Himachal...

World Cup Cricket. A one day tournament started in 1975. In pre internet and limited number of channel days, this was the ultimate sporting extravaganza for millions of Indians. And the matches were...

Poverty porn is peddling poverty and misery as an art by constructing a narrative around it (its truth isn’t important), presenting the selected components (often the worst ones which can be turned into...

The acute civilian military disconnect in India is most prominently seen by the public reactions after every terrorist attack (like the latest in Uri, which sadly won't be the last), where we get...

Taxi Driver Year: 1976 Starring: Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybil Shepard. Director: Martin Scorsese Written by: Paul Schrader Taxi Driver brought three of the most precious gems of cinema into prominence,...

Raam and Shyam are two college goers living in an average Indian city.Raam has represented his school, college and district in basketball. He is also in his college's debating team and likes to...

A leopard never changes its spots Malala Yousufzai , in an interview to the Pakistani daily Dawn, has called upon the United Nations and international community to put an end to the “atrocities...

    It's called Olympics. It is not an exaggeration to say that India has got the most shameful record in Olympics compared to every other nation on earth. Looks like we find...

The leader of opposition in Goa, Pratapsinh Rane of the Congress demanded that Portuguese be made the second language in Goa State Board schools. “We should have no problem with any language. I...

Dear Narendrabhai, I’m one of the millions of voters who rejoiced when you came to power in a unanimous verdict in May 2014. But I am certainly not one of them who whine about...

Burhan Wani was one of the young commanders of Hizb ul Mujahideen (the biggest Kashmiri separatist terrorist group, operational since 1989). Burhan Wani was gunned down, along with two other terrorists by the...