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The year was 1999. I had moved to Delhi as a new bride, carrying nothing but a suitcase full of clothes and a small wooden Mandir gifted to me by my ...

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. ...

Shakespeare’s ‘uneasy lies the head that wears the crown’, is probably tailor made for the Indian cricket captains. At least in the last couple of decades, no captain has had an ...

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 ...

I like the side seats in trains the most. You have access to a nice broad-windowed view, the vendors do not have to reach for you, and there is a dedicated ...

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. ...

“Boys are boys, they make mistakes.” – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party   “Rape is a social crime which depends on the man and the woman. It is sometimes right and ...

Liber-merican sensibilities misdirected at Indian political problem "Harvard professor expresses shock at the censorship of free speech in IIT Madras", read a breathless headline of an article on the website of ...

I was watching a very interesting discussion last night on Focus Tonight with Sanjeev Srivastava. There were 2 journalists and three spokespersons. The first spokesman represented “Janata Dal united”, the second ...

Indian national congress was the principal representative of Indians in British India. Although its style, its intimacy to the royal throne and the viceroys, its methodologies, unreal romanticism is dubious but ...

Mao Zedong was a fêted activist. He co-founded Student Associations, strengthened trade unions and advocated the need for a "Great Union of the Popular Masses". He led communist forces in China ...

It is difficult being Modi. Modi may go around smiling with his rock star like charisma, waving to the onlookers, embracing foreign PMs and Presidents, clicking selfies and delivering stimulating speeches ...