On 1st July 2016, seven armed jihadis stormed into the Holey Artisan bakery in the upmarket Gulshan area of Dhaka, taking more than 30 people hostage. In a throwback to the Nairobi’s Westgate...

Eight CRPF soldiers returning from the shooting range were ambushed by militants in Pampore,J&K, and the rickety bus carrying them became their coffin. Another 25 were grievously injured. And in true ‘’character’’ which...

As Indians, there is one aspect in our daily lives, which we face every day, and which we bear silently in pain. Caste based reservations. Pain. It is pain. Because through it, millions...

11 people have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the Gulbarg society massacre. Calling the massacre of 69 people at the Gulbarg Society in Gujarat the "darkest day in the history of civil...

See the Bollywood families cry shrill on various topics like feminism (while promoting breakup of families), but have they ever had the courage of taking on women’s issues like Female Genital Mutilation? Or...

You are reading a very interesting book. When you reach the hundredth page, you find out that someone has torn out the next twenty pages. You discover further that five pages have been...

Was Hema Malini Dreaming amidst nightmare in Mathura. Seems so. The clash between policemen and the illegal squatters of the Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi in Mathura has become a nightmare, with the...

The time comes again, the biannual event when one third of Rajya Sabha members retire by rotation and elections are held where they are replaced by new candidates for a six year term.Here...

Congress and its allies lost in all the four states of Kerala, WB and Assam and TN. It’s only in tiny Pondicherry that they made minuscule gains. The Left too has been defeated...

Bihar became the fourth Indian state after Gujarat, Nagaland and Manipur (some parts) to enforce prohibition in India from April 2016. It’s a different matter that Nitish Kumar and Co had prohibition as...

Remember Yugoslavia? That giant Balkan state, the result of the Pan Slavic movements in the second decade of the 20th century, a place which was meant to be the home of the ethnic...