Congress wants Portuguese in Goa, Again!
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 ...
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Caste Based Reservations: Get Everything without doing Anything
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 ...
AAP in Goa – How realistic are their chances?
There were many who thought Arvind Kejriwal was a philanthropist who wanted nothing more than ridding the national capital of Sheila Dikshit's misrule. These people thought that Delhi would be Kejriwal's ...
Christians Muslims Unite to take on Hindu Unity in Kerala, declares Church
Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP) was constituted about a century ago to reform the Ezhava Hindu community. Now, after 60 years of neglect under various secular governments, Hindus of various ...
Reopening of Section 377: Judiciary’s chance to correct past wrongs
Delhi High Court had written a new chapter in the Indian History when it gave primacy to Human Rights and decriminalized homosexuality as an offence within the meaning of Section 377 ...
The cost of manufactured intolerance – who will pay the price?
"Intolerance” is the new buzzword ruling our country’s airwaves. It is deeply disturbing to see the opposition, media, leftist intelligentsia and sections of religious clergy connive to vitiate communal harmony by ...
K M Mani: The Fall of a Political Behemoth
“The mightier they are, the harder they fall”. This idiom rings true to the core in the case of K M Mani, the doyen of Kerala politics. One of the most ...
Media, Liberals, Politicos and the great game of “Secularism”
In India, Secularism or the liberal tag is a much-maligned concept today. Rather than the lofty ethos that those words should represent, ideas that come to our mind are the negative ...
The Blight of Conversion
The issue of religious conversion is a constant and a prominent issue in the political discourse of the nation. For the sake of discussion in this article, I have clubbed the ...
BobbyJindalIsSoWhite or IndianTwitteratiIsSoDumb ?
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal announced his presidential bid last week. As he strongly distanced himself from the land of his forefathers, Indians took to Twitter with the hash tag # BobbyJindalIsSoWhite. ...
India’s history of Rip Van Winkle moments and bans
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 ...
Defining and Un-deifying Secularism
There has been a constant hue and cry about secularism being in danger since the time BJP has come to power at the center. The torch bearers of secularism would have us ...
