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Once upon a time, forests were green, women were beautiful, and men were chivalrous and heroic. But in this postmodern era, forests have been plundere..... (full story)

The trend of Indian companies acquiring firms in other countries seems to be picking up. The auto component major, Amtek, this week announced plans to..(full story)

One of the unfortunate consequences of the installation of the communist-supported Congress-led regime in New Delhi is the popularization of a rotten ..... (full story)

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government continues to confuse businessmen and common people on the issue of reservations in the private sector..(full story)

A specter is haunting India, the specter of communism. While the mainstream communist parties are dictating terms in New Delhi, their more radical bre..... (full story)

Look who’s talking. Reacting to the foreign direct investment (FDI) hike in the telecom sector from 49 per cent to 74 per cent, Communist Party of Ind..(full story)

Faulty diagnosis leads to perilous medication. Once again this truism will be positively verified if the proposed legislation, tentatively called the ..... (full story)

A big problem with professional revolutionaries is they think that the people’s credulity matches the absurdity of outlandish radical theories. In the..(full story)

The very existence of Bangladesh’s religious and ethnic minorities is threatened. They are facing complete elimination, said Sitangshu Guha, internati..... (full story)

The promulgation of an ordinance by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to overrule the Supreme Court's judgment in the Rs 803-crore ..(full story)

The Hindu nationalist parties seem to be determined to relegating themselves to oblivion. The continuing, and now embarrassing, hostility to the celeb..... (full story)

One of the fastest growing sectors in India is the industry of crying wolf. Be it liberalization, privatization, or foreign direct investment (FDI), o..(full story)

Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s veto to stop the slum clearance drive in Bombay highlights her disdain for the rule of law and economic reforms. Thi..... (full story)

US President George Bush has sought a “strong friendship” between North America and Europe, as it “is essential to peace and prosperity across the glo..(full story)

President APJ Abdul Kalam’s address to Parliament on the commencement of the budget session was full of clichés, banality, and disingenuousness that w..... (full story)

When there are two economists, they say, three views emanate from them. But when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government comes up with three ..(full story)

Finance Minister P Chidambaram succeeded in fooling most people for some time by his budget 2005-06 speech. But, with the fine print being carefully s..... (full story)

Sonia Gandhi has failed miserably in her political calculations and Machiavellian tactics. While she overestimated the strength of her party in Bihar ..(full story)

If there were some award on finding excuses and fooling people, Finance Minister P Chidambaram would surely have won that. In the recent budget, he ha..... (full story)

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has justly lambasted Leader of the Opposition LK Advani for his pretensions of being the avatar of Sardar Patel, the ori..(full story)

The ingenuity that our political class shows in hurting the national interest is matched only by its foolhardiness. In its reaction to the Nepal crisi..... (full story)

The only thing more depressing than the budget in the economic field was the reaction of industry, media, and our reformers to the budget. It seemed t..(full story)

It is time some research was done to examine the pathology of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), especially the Sangh’s penchant for alienating it..... (full story)

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has reacted in a most irresponsible manner on the issue of the Patents (Amendment) Bill. Though it claims to be a nat..(full story)

US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s visit has offered us to catapult the ties between the two countries into a trajectory beneficial to both count..... (full story)

The decision of the United States government to deny visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is as impolitic as it is silly and hypocritical. full story)

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is baring its fangs by empowering taxmen to extract maximum revenue from businessmen. The recent prop..... (full story)

Why is it that our intellectuals hate any policy and programme that is in consonance with commonsense and prudence? A number of them are expressing th..(full story)

The only thing more depressing than Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan’s casteist politics is the pusillanimity of businessmen. He keeps threatening the ..... (full story)

Leftwing intellectuals hate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi more than they hate America. This becomes obvious from their criticism of the Manmoha..(full story)

The communist movement seems to be suffering from schizophrenia. While communist leaders in the West Bengal government keep making market-friendly noi..... (full story)

There is nothing unusual in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s refusal to check the demographic aggression launched by Bangladesh agai..(full story)

There is such a wide gulf between the precept and practice of the Left that one does not know what does it stand for on vital economic issues. Would i..... (full story)

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders have increasingly started resembling the Bourbons of yore: they have learnt nothing and they have forgotten nothi..(full story)

Intellectuals enjoy great ingenuity in finding reasons to run down the United States for its real and imaginary sins. Salman Rushdie is no exception. ..... (full story)

What is common between Socrates and the dance bar girls of Bombay? Well, both have been accused of corrupting the youth.

The great Greek philo..(full story)

Chances are slim that the Manmohan Singh government would give a befitting reply to the outrage perpetrated by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR). So far, th..... (full story)

Even as the communists continue to shout pro-proletariat slogans, the working class in their strongholds, West Bengal and Kerala, has started protesti..(full story)

This is how our political class deals with treason. "The government has strongly condemned this dastardly act of violence." Can you count how many tim..... (full story)

There is something estimable in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Despite all the constraints and restraints, he has not given up. The indefatigable man ..(full story)

In his refusal to scrap the withdrawal tax and fringe benefit tax (FBT), Finance Minister P Chidambaram has exhibited a mulishness that has not been s..... (full story)

The denial of visa to Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen proves—if proof is required—that the Indian state is hell-bent on appeasing Muslims.

..(full story)

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has exposed himself as a petty politician by unnecessarily raking up the issue of Juhu Centaur Hotel sale by the Nation..... (full story)

It is “only a handful” of hotheads who wage jihad and, therefore, besmirch the good message of Islam—this line of argument is zealously promoted by Le..(full story)

American liberals seem to have reached the peak of their frustration. The curious case of Ajai Raj, a 19 year-old Indian-American studying at the Univ..... (full story)

The problem with the champions of liberalization is that they don’t disdain the Left, whereas the Leftists loathe reformers from their guts. The resul..(full story)

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is celebrating the first year in power under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; and the big media is busy writing ni..... (full story)

Some functionaries of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government are awfully keen to flaunt their “progressive” and secular credentials—which in..(full story)

The ongoing Bihar drama has exposed the entire political class as unscrupulous, unprincipled, and deceitful. Not that it is a great revelation and we ..... (full story)

Bombay has become the theatre of many a battle. The issues involved are ideological, political, and economic, though they may appear to be local in na..(full story)

Pakistan, Islamic fundamentalists, and other anti-India entities can relax. They must realize that nobody does the job of tarnishing India’s image bet..... (full story)

In these ultra-secular times, even an obituary can become a contrivance to laud Nehruvian values and malign Hindu society and its supposed champion, t..(full story)

It is indeed surprising that Bharatiya Janata Party president L.K. Advani, who betrayed the Hindus and the nation while in office for six years, can s..... (full story)

Pandering to the anti-smoking lobby and the self-appointed redeemers of mankind, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has issued a fatw..(full story)

“Capitalists,” Lenin said, “will sell the rope with which we will hang them.” Indian capitalists definitely will! Their in-principle acceptant of the ..... (full story)

It is quite baffling that intellectuals all over the world lecture, instruct, and harangue democratic leaders, especially those on the Right. On the o..(full story)

Political commentators in India are fond of calling Pakistan a “failed state,” given the havoc wrought by uncontrollable jihadis in our neighboring co..... (full story)

Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Praveen Togadia has rightly called Lal Krishna Advani a traitor. We do not fully subscribe to the ideology of VHP, ..(full story)

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Lal Krishna Advani is much more craven than we thought he was. His decision to withdraw the resignation has exp..... (full story)

If you want to learn something about the pathology of India’s intellectuals, read Ruchir Joshi’s leader article in Hindustan Times (June 13, 20..(full story)

It is time somebody stopped Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar from sacrificing national interests and wasting taxpayers’ money. His ..... (full story)

Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar is determined to please the Left—at the expense of the nation. Coming close on the heels of his pi..(full story)

On any issue, you can expect the Left Front to take the stupidest stand. The proposed $12 billion investment by the South Korean steel major Pohang St..... (full story)

The Congress has challenged the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) to cite the names of any of its members who were freedom fighters. The Congress is i..(full story)

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government under Manmohan Singh should expose the lies, doublespeak, and hypocrisy of the Left. What is surprisi..... (full story)

Whom would our professional revolutionaries blame for Imrana’s predicament? In their scheme of things, somebody or something other than Islamic is res..(full story)

Communists have always been notorious for working against the best interests of the nation. Their tirade against important functionaries of the United..... (full story)

Once upon a time, great men like Swami Vivekanand, Swami Dayanand, Bankim Chandra, Lokmanya Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, B.C. Pal, and Veer Savarkar were t..(full story)

Sudheendra Kulkarni is the embodiment of the disease the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been suffering from for quite some time-the disease of guilt..... (full story)

Be prepared for a barrage of platitudes and plain lies from Leftists and liberals in the wake of the July 7 London bombings. “It is only a handful of ..(full story)

The $50 billion aid package by the G8 nations for Africa and the Palestinian Authority is as dim-witted as it is damaging.

On the face of it, t..... (full story)

It is saddening to note that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statesmanlike comment on the “beneficial effects” of the British Empire on India is being..(full story)

After the London bombings, the so-called moderate Muslims have been quick to take recourse to sophistry. Whether they are in the West or in India, the..... (full story)

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is suffering from an acute form of dementia. Senior BJP leader and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s criti..(full story)

The labor unrest in Gurgaon has signified that the media is too willing to help the commies. It accepts the Left lies hook, line, and sinker. It was o..... (full story)

By giving a lukewarm response to the bandh called by the Left parties on July 28, Gurgaon has shown that it is not willing to become a puppet i..(full story)

When the Reds scream for the rights of workers, they don’t include the poor chaps who have the misfortune of being employees of communist front organi..... (full story)

Left-inspired populism is all set to attain new heights, with the Manmohan Singh government being forced to accept an employment guarantee law. The Le..(full story)

In the Left’s scheme of things, Gurgaon has become sexy. Not because of its glittering malls, lively multiplexes, and plush residential complexes; the..... (full story)

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have made a tryst with idiocy. Its two recent decisions—to support the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) gov..(full story)

The ganging up of the entire political class against the Supreme Court’s decision on private unaided colleges is symptomatic of the malady of populism..... (full story)

There is nothing surprising about the manner in which members of Parliament (MPs) attacked the judiciary on Wednesday on the issue of reservations in ..(full story)

Some are born blind, some get afflicted with blindness, and some blindfold themselves. Communists belong to the first category, Left-of-the-Center int..... (full story)

The Supreme Court’s decision against reservations in private educational institutes has evoked angry reaction from the political class, which seems to..(full story)

When communists rail against consumerism and Western decadence, what they mean is that ordinary people should not enjoy the fruits of their own labor ..... (full story)

You can fool all the people for all the time—this seems to be the conviction of liberal intellectuals and “moderate” Muslims. That is why they keep re..(full story)

The economic scenario of India seldom looked as rosy as it looks now, with almost all macroeconomic indicators suggesting vibrancy and buoyancy. This ..... (full story)

1950s, with the help of a female swallow, codenamed NEVEROVA, who presumably seduced him. The KGB was clearly pleased with the material which PROKHOR ..(full story)

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government finally seems to be waking up to the threat of Naxal menace. Would this waking up result in some conc..... (full story)

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have made a tryst with idiocy. Its criticism of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on the vote..(full story)

The introduction of the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Bill is testimony to the growing influence of the communists, an influence that is ..... (full story)

We always knew that the ideology and activities of communists hurt national interests. The recent events, however, suggest that there is a method in t..(full story)

The only appropriate way to deal with Bangladeshis is to whip them. For, as the Hindi saying goes, Laaton ke bhoot baaton se nahin maante—that ..... (full story)

What is Sonia Gandhi up to? She is opposed to anything that is in the national interest, be it the industrialization of backward states or the curtail..(full story)

The suspicion that communists are actively and zealously working to hurt India’s national interests is strengthening every day. Two incidents, as repo..... (full story)

Power, said Acton, corrupts. But the lust for power can have a worse effect: it often locks up politicians in their own universe, completely cut off f..(full story)

Secularism is the most crucial subject in Indian politics: it is the ultimate frame of reference to commend or condemn parties and leaders; it is the ..... (full story)

The noises that our commies make against foreign direct investment (FDI), labor reforms, etc, are signify nothing. For they don’t practice what they p..(full story)

It might appear curious that the communist parties, the self-appointed champions of morality and propriety, have thrown their weight behind former Ext..... (full story)

The unseemly behavior that greeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his speech at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Monday is clearly symptomatic o..(full story)

What is really surprising about the Jehanabad attack executed by the Naxalites is the surprise it has elicited in the government, the media, and among..... (full story)

In his recent visit to China, US President George Bush re-emphasized his predilection for political and religious freedoms and for democracy; he also ..(full story)

The Bihar assembly poll results have shown that gimmicks, buffoonery, and caste politics cannot be used perennially to fool the voter. The popular ver..... (full story)

The reaction of intellectuals to the ouster of Uma Bharti from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reveals not only their antipathy towards the party but..(full story)

A few questions come to the mind in the wake of the latest violence in Australia: What is the problem of Muslims? Why can’t they live peacefully in an..... (full story)

Secularism is proving to be a malaise not only in India but in the entire world. Secularists, with support from liberals and Left loonies, are determi..(full story)

Once again, the Left has prevailed upon the Manmohan Singh government, and disinvestment in National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) and Neyvel..... (full story)

Wherever there is destruction, death, chaos, and disorder, the signature of communists can be clearly seen. The violence in Orissa on January 2, in wh..(full story)

The Muslim reaction to the printing of cartoons derogatory to Prophet Mohammad has once again exposed the intolerant nature of Islam. What is really d..... (full story)

The Manmohan Singh government should take off its kid gloves and firmly deal with the striking employees of the Airports Authority of India (AAI). As ..(full story)

The protests carried out by various Hindu groups against Valentine’s Day celebrations might have been dismissed as a boring ritual had they not been v..... (full story)

The best thing that has happened in the wake of the controversy regarding Muslim headcount in the armed forces is the aggressive posture adopted by th..(full story)

Commerce & Industry Minister Kamal Nath’s for steel magnate L.N. Mittal’s bid for Arcelor is, to put it mildly, half-witted. As the Hindi adage goes, ..... (full story)

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has rightly criticized the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for its step to conduct a Muslim headcount in..(full story)

What the Jessica Lal verdict has confirmed, if confirmation was needed, is that the rule of law has collapsed in our country.

A couple of rich,..... (full story)

Budget 2006, presented by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on February 28 in Parliament, was as unimaginative and pusillanimous as the United Progressi..(full story)

While most of the nation welcomed US President George Bush and the growing bonhomie between the two largest democracies in the world, the leaders of L..... (full story)

Is murder the only efficacious mode of political action available in today’s India? The recent hit Hindi movie, Rang de basanti, answers in the..(full story)

There is a quotable quote from one of James Bond novels: "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." So, Indians should..... (full story)

As feared by prudent economists, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government's Rs 12,000-crore flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Schem..(full story)

How pompous our political masters can get! The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government, which has done nothing for Indian Diaspora, continues to ..... (full story)

The meretricious charms of populist polices and Muslim votes have seduced many a politician—and checked the growth of numerous political careers. To b..(full story)

LK Advani's disapproval of Ranbaxy's sale to Japan's Daiichi-Sankyo is not very wise. What it shows is that the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) leade..... (full story)

Intellectuals’ reaction to the sentencing of Binayak Sen on charges of sedition by a Chhattisgarh trial court should come as an eye-opener to anybody ..(full story)

The Congress-led Government’s decision to resume the bilateral cricket series with Pakistan is not only an insult to the victims of 26/11 terror attac..... (full story)

The more things change, the more they remain the same. From Mahatma Gandhi to Jayaprakash Narayan to Anna Hazare, the hallmarks of mass movements have..(full story)

The killing of Osama bin Laden offers India an excellent opportunity to spearhead the campaign to ostracize Pakistan from the comity of nations. ..... (full story)

Unlimited and infinite appeasement of Pakistan has become an article of faith among Leftwing intellectuals and sundry liberals. Whenever some mischief..(full story)

THE other day my maid told me sorrowfully, “I am thinking of discontinuing my daughter’s education.” This surprised me because she also showed keennes..... (full story)

Senior Congress leader Vasant Sathe (March 5, 1925-September 23, 2011) embodied the spirit of rationalism and outspokenness, the qualities that are..(full story)

The Planning Commission’s affidavit in the Supreme Court has reignited the debate over the extent of poverty in India. According to the plan panel,..... (full story)

By obliquely objecting to ONGC Videsh Ltd’s exploration in what Vietnam claims is its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea, Beijing..(full story)

The industry of crying wolf is once again busy fighting—this time, the big, bad multinational corporations (MNCs) that are supposedly gobbling up d..... (full story)

When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh showered fulsome praise on Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) at its golden jubilee celebrations on October 1 f..(full story)

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s new guidelines for the issuance of licences to TV channels are an attempt to subdue, if not muzz..... (full story)

The statement by the Pakistan Army chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, that the US should “think 10 times” before launching any unilateral offensi..(full story)

It is a sad commentary on the conformism of our times that Muslim clerics, and not our voluble secular liberals, have taken on Wahhabism, the most ..... (full story)

Ennahda, the “moderate” Islamist party of Tunisia, won over 41 per cent of the vote and 90 seats in the 217-member Parliament. It was the first ele..(full story)

This is for starters. The liberals, 'secularists,' and sundry intellectuals clamoring for self-determination for the Kashmiris should get an idea—t..... (full story)

The Department of Pharmaceuticals, under the Chemicals & Fertilizers Ministry, has proposed a new drug pricing policy that would bring about 60 per..(full story)

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you, said American entertainer Will Rogers. The antics of the U..... (full story)

With the government facing acute financial crunch, it is working hard to meet the target of disinvestment in public sector enterprises (PSEs). It i..(full story)

With the onset of festive season every year, milk adulteration is widely reported; this year is no exception. Typically, the authorities carry out rai..... (full story)

Hypocrisy having become the defining feature of Indian politics, it was not surprising to find that our leaders vied with each other expressing san..(full story)

An error, Gandhi said, does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation. The problem is that even without becoming truth, error invariably..... (full story)

The India-Pakistan Commerce Secretary-level talks, which began on November 14, would surely delight the liberals in our country, for they stand for..(full story)

The crisis Kingfisher Airlines faces today is not completely the result of goof-ups Vijay Mallya and his executives have made. The ‘King of Good Ti..... (full story)

In its response to former cricketer Vinod Kambli’s statement about the 1996 World Cup semi-final, the cricket establishment appears to be intriguin..(full story)

The victimization of a Christian priest over the charges of forced conversion in Jammu & Kashmir highlights not only the content of Azaadi that the..... (full story)

It was for the first time that the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) India summit was organized in Mumbai, the commercial capital, rather than in New De..(full story)

Was it Islamist resurgence that intellectuals, always happy in their make-believe world and always willing to overlook Muslim fundamentalism, calle..... (full story)

By its decision to allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has been able to p..(full story)

It’s a bit clichéd all right, but that is what I really felt when I heard of Dev Anand’s death—a void. Like the one I felt after the demise of my e..... (full story)

The man loves color. This is the first impression that one gets when confronted with Dev Anand. Bright, dark green suede suit, a yellow shirt, a re..(full story)

It is not difficult to find why the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government wants to control the Internet: any regime which harbors tyrannical..... (full story)

Harvard University has not covered itself in glory by dropping two courses taught by Janata Party president and Centre for National Renaissance cha..(full story)

As if the foibles and follies of the United Progressive Alliance government were not enough, we have a chap in Yojana Bhawan whose summum bonum in ..... (full story)

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee does not reveal a state secret when he says that his government needs to take new policy initiatives to revive gr..(full story)

In a famous couplet, Ghalib laments about the haughtiness of his beloved: har ek baat pe kahate ho tum ki tuu kyaa hai/tumhii.n kaho ke ye a.ndaaz-..... (full story)

During the days of British Empire, the rulers of many princely states got interested in cricket. Some of them not only promoted the game but also p..(full story)

After the Congress’ rout in the recent state elections, especially in Uttar Pradesh, crown prince Rahul Gandhi did something creditable at long las..... (full story)

When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh blamed non-government organizations (NGOs) for trying to stop the Koodankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nad..(full story)

Any talk about the spread of Islamic fundamentalism faces ad hominem and irrational assaults. In India, anybody who raises the menace of Islamizati..... (full story)

Budget 2012 has once again proved, if proof was required, that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has no concern for the..(full story)

If there is one country where the worst fears of classical liberal philosophers, contemporary libertarians, and Western conservatives tend to be co..... (full story)

The Chief of Army Staff writes to the Prime Minister about the pathetic state of defence preparedness. The letter is mysteriously leaked. The Parli..(full story)

South Korean steel group Posco’s ordeal in India is emblematic of not only the rot in the system but also of the march of Sonia Gandhi’s perverted ..... (full story)

When eight public intellectuals join hands to bring out a paper to “to identify the basic principles that should guide India’s foreign and strategi..(full story)

The Central government’s sudden and unexpected zeal to combat terrorism deserves a closer scrutiny. For starters, we shall begin with the structure..... (full story)

Do we need Formula One in a poor country where potable water is not available to millions of people? Such rhetorical questions are asked whenever b..(full story)

The Taliban’s attack on a prison at Dera Ismail Khan in northwest Pakistan on April 15, which resulted in the freeing of about 400 prisoners, is a ..... (full story)

Do the Pakistanis believe that our credulity is limitless? Yes, they do.

For, we are ruled by a clique ..(full story)

The outlook revision by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s, from stable to negative, is scarcely astonishing. The reasons it attributed to the revisi..... (full story)

A 27-year-old man leaves his village in Perambalur district in Tamil Nadu for Saudi Arabia. Like any other immigrant worker in the rentier state, P..(full story)

St Aloysius Pre-University College of Mangalore should be lauded for banning burqa in class. At a time when no political party talks about social r..... (full story)

Not unlike many other issues, public sector policy remains mired in confusion and chaos. Now there is a proposal for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) ..(full story)

Only instruments of slavery can be expected to be manufactured by the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty and its lackeys. So, it is not surprising that Rahul Gan..... (full story)

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s insistence that his government has the right to tax the Vodafone transaction is an assault on the rule of law. ..(full story)

It took months and a question by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi for the Congress-led government to make a feeble statement about..... (full story)

The speed at which political statements of doubtful veracity acquire the aura of gospel truth is astonishing. One such “truth” is: co..(full story)

If you hurl the charge of racism at any Dutch person, “he will give you whatever you want,” wrote Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-Dutch author and poli..... (full story)

In these postmodern times, it is heartening to know that a public figure talks about the Age of Enlightenment and inveighs against superstitions an..(full story)

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh, recently said that girls are ready for marriage by age 10 or 12. In March, he had decla..... (full story)

The report of the three-member team of interlocutors on Jammu & Kashmir is an affront to decency, liberalism, and reason. Recommendations of the ..(full story)

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has upheld the cause of fairness by quashing the 4.5 per cent sub-quota for religious minorities carved out of 27 per..... (full story)

Team Anna’s charge that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh “abused his position to give huge pecuniary benefits to private parties,” and his emotional r..(full story)

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said British philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke. In India, the si..... (full story)

In yet another blatant move, the Congress-led government at the Centre has asked states to appoint at least one Muslim officer in police stations i..(full story)

Global ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has stated the obvious: India faces the dire risk of losing its investment-grade rating. It’s not the first..... (full story)

Nothing shocks or even surprises us these days. A surfeit of depressing developments, accompanied with equally depressing macroeconomic indicators,..(full story)

As if the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has addressed all relevant issues, its chairman Wajahat Habibullah has come out in support of Is..... (full story)

The Supreme Court must be lauded for invalidating the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s proposal to introduce Muslim quota. The Congre..(full story)

A Muslim Congress MLA of Assam, Rebia Sultana, eloped with her boyfriend and married him after converting to Hinduism. The Arya Samaj process of Sh..... (full story)

Filmmakers like Dibakar Banerjee and Anurag Kashyap are often presented by critics as the heralds of a new age, perhaps golden age, of Hindi cinema..(full story)

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s insistence that the leader of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) “should have secular credentials” has reop..... (full story)

In a recent article (The Indian Express, June 29), veteran journalist Inder Malhotra wrote, “What suddenly reminded me of this was that the 37th an..(full story)

We live in an age in which statements of dubitable veracity assume the visage of gospel truth. All that is needed is control over the levers of pow..... (full story)

In the run-up to the 1999 general election, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) organised meetings with important political parties to inform t..(full story)

Timbuktu does exist. Synonymous with a faraway, mythical, or fabled place in general perception, it is actually a town in the West African nation o..... (full story)

The diktats of the Asara panchayat in the Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, barring girls from using mobile phones on roads and women less than 40 y..(full story)

The British daily, The Independent, has described Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as “Sonia’s poodle.” For, he is a man who has sacrificed everything..... (full story)

Would we be fourth time lucky? After all, we weathered the 1991 crisis; in fact, we emerged stronger with economic policy undergoing a metamorphosis. ..(full story)

Discerning intellectual, outstanding scholar and former trade union leader Baldev Raj Sharma (December 10, 1942-June 24, 2012) recently passed away..... (full story)

Concern for the poor has been the façade for perpetrating many a scam in this country. Now, it is being used to justify and perpetuate a massive qu..(full story)

There is a suspicion of Maoist hand in the disturbances at Maruti’s Manesar plant. So far, Maoists are viewed as troublemakers somewhere out there&..... (full story)

In Sonia Gandhi’s scheme of things, no bad deed goes unrewarded. On July 31, the ruling doctrine reached its apotheosis with Power Minister Sushil ..(full story)

Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi’s reaction to Baba Ramdev’s call against his party smacks of desperation and deceit. It seems to be non..... (full story)

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Independence Day speech was another essay in irksome platitudes, shameful subterfuges, fantastic claims, and sancti..(full story)

When Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said a few days ago that his state “is like volcano,” he was scarcely exaggerating. The danger, however, is n..... (full story)

he most important part of Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ] (BJP) leader L K Advani's speech in Parliament on August 8 was not in which he used the w..(full story)

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) wants Sahara to withdraw its advertisement for its retail venture, Sahara Q Shop, primarily becaus..... (full story)

“A politician thinks of the next election,” said the American clergyman James Freeman Clarke. “A statesman, of the next generation.” He had not rec..(full story)

When the telecast of Parliamentary proceedings began a few years ago, optimists must have expected the behavior of lawmakers to improve and the lev..... (full story)

The Law of Karma is inexorable. Whatever is said and done, whether in our personal lives or in the public domain, has consequences. The unfortunate..(full story)

By slapping sedition charges against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, the Congress, which is in power in New Delhi and Maharashtra, has once again shown i..... (full story)

The Manmohan Singh government’s bold economic measures, as announced on September 14, have already occasioned the coining of a new term―‘big ..(full story)

So, it has dawned on the Samajwadi Party that secularism―that fictitious temple in the Indian political arena which every leader is supposed ..... (full story)

For how long would Congress leaders dodge uncomfortable questions about the party’s first family? Whether it is Congress president and United Progr..(full story)

Does the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stand for anything? Can it offer a viable alternative in terms of statecraft and economic? One has to be a bl..... (full story)

Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own, said the nineteenth century British publisher H.G. Bohn. Evidently, he did not reckon w..(full story)

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh must be lauded for verbalizing the oligarchic mindset of the government led by his party. His recent stat..... (full story)

In Sonia Gandhi’s India no impropriety goes unrewarded. So, Salman Khurshid has been elevated within the government. The law minister will now beco..(full story)

Our politicians believe that our credulity is limitless―just like their own unscrupulousness. So, they keep telling us fairy tales―and ..... (full story)

The conspicuous feature of the Congress rally on Sunday in the national Capital was that the prominent leaders of the grand old party did not even ..(full story)

The Saurabh Kalia case has, for the nth time, underlined the ineptitude and callousness of the political class in matters related to defence, natio..... (full story)

In his valedictory address at the Microfinance India Summit in New Delhi on Wednesday, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh may have called mic..(full story)

The takeover of the Male airport by the Maldives government is much more than a blow to GMR and a setback to India’s economic diplomacy. The develo..... (full story)

Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s three-day visit to India followed the now familiar pattern. He made some obnoxious remarks―obnoxiou..(full story)

The sentimentalist orgies our political masters indulged in following the rape and battering of a young physiotherapy student inside a moving bus i..... (full story)

Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something, wrote Plato 2,500 years ago. The truth of the quote ha..(full story)

Like each of the blind men who could only tell about an aspect of the elephant, opinion makers are mostly grappling in the dark in their comments o..... (full story)

The Delhi High Court’s observation, that the routine imposition of Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code “would lead to loss of the sanctity” ..(full story)

A thread runs through the volatile Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir and the killings fields of Latehar in Jharkhand―the thread of politicians..... (full story)

On the face of it, there is not much common between senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar and Guru Asaram Bapu. But you have to dig a bit deep ..(full story)

Inspector Sujata Patil of the Mumbai Police should be thrown behind bars, if not hanged, for her audacity to use words like “traitors” and “snakes”..... (full story)

At a time when the Supreme Court and right-thinking people are worried over the diktats of khap panchayats, Punjab is all set to have its own Shari..(full story)

The new Bharatiya Janata Party president, Rajnath Singh, should be lauded for daring Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to ban his party along with t..... (full story)

The unedifying spectacles Ashis Nandy’s stupid remarks have generated are as much symptomatic of the perversity of public discourse as of the petti..(full story)

You have to levitate to the rarefied realm of intellectualism in which Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen dwells to comprehend that freedom of expression i..... (full story)

Any discussion on paid news inevitably meanders into the foggy realm of ethics; invariably, the denouement is a set of lessons in moral science. A ..(full story)

We have been so badly brainwashed by Marxist historians, who fatten on Congress patronage, and dogmatic intellectuals that we are unable to see the..... (full story)

We live in an age in which villainy dons the mantle of victimhood and the victim is put on trial. This is also the age in which the state is trying..(full story)

What is it with India’s IT czars that invariably makes them insufferable bores and often dangerous idiots? Consider Wipro chairman Azim Premji’s su..... (full story)

It is not very often that our Parliamentarians do something positive. We are accustomed to the scenes of interruptions, pandemonium, sloganeering, ..(full story)

Every age has its own clichés. The one that has seized the commentariat, and paralyzed their minds, is that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi ha..... (full story)

The disingenuousness that the enemies of freedom employ to promote their illiberal ideas is astonishing. Worse, masquerading as the champions of th..(full story)

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar tried to achieve many goals at the recent rally in Delhi, but the portrait of the ambitious leader that emerges i..... (full story)

Three days after presenting Budget 2014, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram wondered why Indian companies, both public sector undertakings (PSUs) as w..(full story)

Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar is considered a champion of open economy, which—as a natural corollary—also implies great concern for respect for i..... (full story)

The glee with which most domestic pharmaceutical companies have greeted the Supreme Court decision dismissing Novartis AG’s appeal for patent prote..(full story)

Were it not for a distinct possibility of Rahul Gandhi becoming prime minister, his rambling address to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) ..... (full story)

After Margaret Thatcher’s death last week, a great deal has been written about the similarities between her and Indira Gandhi—strong personalities ..(full story)

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram is known as a liberalizer in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Though he hasn’t done as much as one..... (full story)

The only party that has the capability of deposing the Congress from the Centre is… well, the Congress itself. In the same fashion as the worst ene..(full story)

The demand to ban watching of pornography is deeply flawed in theory; the consequences will be damning if it is accepted.

To begin with, nobo..... (full story)

The easiest thing in India to do is to divert attention from the most important question of the day. The recent instance is the public interest lit..(full story)

The murder of Sarabjit Singh has brought the issue of 54 Indian prisoners of war (PoWs) to the fore. They were among the 400-500 PoWs captured in t..... (full story)

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi believes that opposing the Food Security Bill is tantamount to “hurting the poor of the country.” Speaking ..(full story)

On the face of it, the recently announced Drug (Prices Control) Order, which brings 652 formulations under price control, may appear to be good for..... (full story)

The disastrous economic policies followed by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) have been showing their effect on macroeconomic ind..(full story)

A few years ago, prominent journalist Arun Shourie wrote a book whose theme was evident in its title—Will the Iron Fence Save a Tree Hollowed by..... (full story)

‘The old order changeth, yielding place to new’—Tennyson’s timeless lines come to the mind while witnessing the drama surrounding the ascension of ..(full story)

Hurray! Our moral guardians have found the culprit responsible for rape — bikini-clad mannequin. Concerned over sex offences in Mumbai, the Brihanm..... (full story)

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