Watching BBC series on dirty Britain, I was shocked, even ashamed as to how unbelievably filthy, dirty this country is. While Germany, Switzerland along with Scandinavian countries top the “Cleanliness Chart” we are languishing at the bottom,...

When the British came to realise that sooner or later their rule of India had to end and there had to be a decision on what they should do to retain some influence over their former colony. The obvious answer was partition of India and creation...

I refer to the letter from Mr Ramesh Jhalla in your issue of 22 November 2014 concerning Jawaharlal Nehru. I have never come across a more inaccurate and scurrilous letter arising, I believe, from his own ignorance and also prejudice against...

The shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, has been reported to say that a Labour government will strip private schools of valuable tax breaks worth hundreds of millions of pounds.According to his proposals, private schools in England will...

The 70% turnout at recent Assembly elections in J & K, is fitting reply to our meddling British MPs who interfere in India’s internal affairs to cultivate their vote banks among ill-informed Pakistani Kashmiris.

Kusoom Vadgama’s vehement opposition to Gandhiji’s statue in Parliament Square is irrelevant as it dwells too much in the historical and Gandhiji’s personal past, which cannot be undone by slandering.  Problems of the present cannot/will not...

The enduring popularity of tobacco, and the rise in the number of children taking to it, is alarming. Young people start on these habits in the pressure of popular culture, failing to foresee the consequences of their actions.