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The forecasts for this year’s monsoons may be gloomy, but it will be sensible to assume that the forthcoming monsoon session in the parliament is going to be a heavy downpour ...

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 ...

Ever since US decided that the Shah of Iran was the right ruler for Iran, US has been wrong about Iran. He was a despot, a torturer and a cruel man ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He had a constant threat of imprisonment hanging over his head. His colleagues gossiped about his involvement in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. In a speech to mark the 125th anniversary ...

Hindus call India, their motherland. Muslims call it their homeland. Lord Ram said “जननी जन्मभूमिश्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी (Mother and motherland are superior to Heaven). Prophet Mohammad said, “Love of one’s homeland ...

Justice,equality,emancipation,belief-somewhere my life gets dull and lambasted when such heavy utopian phrases scribe in the air. For long, India has bragged of its stance of being the world’s largest democracy. The ...

  Ever since the horrific incident at Charlie Hebdo, the echo of ‘freedom of expression’ has grown louder. In India it peaked around March, also the time when the much debated ...

Indian politics is considered not only overpopulated in terms of parties but also diverse in terms of magnitude.The history of the Indian civilization has always obscured the geography of the sub ...

It’s been little over a year since the Modi Government assumed office, and I find a new breed of severely misinformed and malicious lie peddling morons mushroom in our political discourse. ...