With friends like Pakistan, one doesn't need any enemies. This was the lesson USA learnt in the hard way. From the days when 'Mujahideen' were supported in the credits of Rambo-III, to the...

It is always difficult to change the system from within. It is recorded in history how the British, occupiers of this country tried to eradicate some of the worst practices that were in...

‘By bad luck, I am a Brahmin” replied the unemployed youth on being asked why he was not working despite having a diploma in mechanical engineering. The year was 1993 and he was...

Subhash Velingkar: The Rebel from RSS First thing that came to my mind on reading the news of RSS sacking its Goa chief was a side story of Ramayana, albeit not from the...

TR Pachamuthu, chancellor of SRM University was arrested recently. SRM University, Tamil Nadu advertises in all leading national publications about the standard of education provided in their institutions and students from all over...

India is Independent. Now, Indians shall Liberate themselves from Self-Inflicted Psychological Restraints Frustrated ever I was, annoyed when the girl selling the 'Tri-colour' was over charging her customers. Now, the fever of Independence...

What happens when a poet-cum-philosopher, A student leader and a flamboyant, but incorruptible orator align together? A new nation takes birth. The poet was Muhammad Iqbal, who transformed from being an Indian nationalist...

Case 1: When a news/media outlet publishes an opinion piece by a chief minister with not only a disclaimer but also claiming copyrights on the opinion (to which they claim they are not...

One thing that was common across supporters and detractors of the Modi Government was their perception on the way the Modi government handled Kashmir, if not Pakistan. To the observer, there was a...

Way back in 2003, only to embarrass the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu, opposition leader Rajasekhara Reddy got about forty Congress MLAs write a letter to Sonia Gandhi seeking to...

If one asks the youngest kid in the first family of India what he wanted to become, without batting an eyelid he would reply 'To rule India'. Now that is what is called...

Finally the cloak was thrown away and the dragger drawn, albeit through remote control. Learning from the opposition was always a good thing. Perhaps, Subramanian Swamy inspired him, the way he pursued his cases...