Such has been the disastrous pollution in Delhi and its environs in recent days. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal , driven to desperation, announced that schools in the city would be closed temporarily to prevent serious damage to the health...
Bangalore was India’s pride, Bangaluru, as the city is now called, is India’s shame. The orgy of violence witnessed last week, of blazing buses and buildings will be etched in the public memory for decades, a benchmark of horror never to be...
The Indian government has invited the US president Donald Trump to be the chief guest at next year's Republic Day celebrations. The Indian government is awaiting the US government's response where the latter has indicated that Trump administration...
Adolf Hitler, it would appear, is in vogue in India and, not to be outdone in Sri Lanka, too
The political silly season remains a year-long phenomenon, the idiocy ebbs and flows, the waters rarely stilled by logic, reason or coherence. The most weather-beaten subjects dull the public mind, none more so than Indira Gandhi’s Emergency...
The Centre’s peace initiative in Kashmir in the Islamic holy month of Ramzan brought not peace but greater bloodshed. The Hurriyat leadership, blinkered and defiant, spurned the olive branch. The PDF-led State government of Chief Minister Mufti...
A young Indian woman, a junior international chess champion to boot, had the courage and moral integrity to say no to a demand that she play with a headscarf at the Asian Team Chess Championship to be held in Hamadan from July 26-August 4.
The much touted Opposition alignment, more misalliance than alliance, appears to be splitting at the seams, with certain party heads – the TMC’s Mamata Benerjee, the Communist Party of India’s D.Raja, Telugu Desam’s Chandrababu Naidu and former...
The Karnataka election was tailor-made for India’s all too wooden English-language TV channels. Style and content were eminently predictable, and hence forgettable.
The Janata Dal-Congress coalition has triumphed, but ‘it was a damned close run thing,’ as the victorious Duke of Wellington is supposed to have exclaimed after the Battle of Waterloo.
Black comedy and farce appear to be way of life for a class of Indian politician whose sole purpose for engaging in public life is to grab media headlines, whatever the cost to their image.
Indian politics witnessed a new farce engineered by the Congress party and its allies – the move to impeach the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Dipak Misra. The constitutional procedure requires that the Rajya Sabha (Upper House) approve...
