The hills are alive…
byThink lush green vegetation, pure fresh air, and clear blue skies…Think Mashobra… About a three-hour drive from Chandigarh and 14 km northeast of Shimla,…
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Amir Khan & Intolerance
bySo Amir Khan’s wife says “maybe it is time to leave India and settle somewhere else” and pronto Amir Khan gets convinced that the…
How ISIS is winning the war
byOne can’t help but notice the irony and Biblical deja vu inherent in the multiple tragedies playing out in the Middle-east. The region which…
Excuse Me, I Forgot My Nationality
byThe facts of the case against Mr Gandhi are clear. In a Company incorporated in 2003 in UK, in many documents his nationality has been marked as BRITISH while in some it is INDIAN.
The ” CESS” Pool — Stop This Taxation Through The Back Door
byThe government has given us our belated Diwali gift – a brand new Cess on all services. From 16.11.2015 we shall all now have…
ASTROSAT – ISRO makes India shine again
byNASA’s international Space Station (ISS) completes 17 years of existence on 20 November 2015 since its first component was launched into space in 1998….
OROP – What Next
byThere is no point in trying to educate the nation’s citizens on the plight of a soldier whether during service or after retirement. It is a waste of effort since a common Indian has no time for all this. All his energies are directed towards his own innumerable problems that he faces on a daily basis.
Tolerance, Intolerance and National Security
byThere is little doubt that the current ‘intolerance’ campaign was mounted by the opposition parties in concert with the paid media, aimed at the…
Revisiting The Trust Deficit
byMany decades ago when I was growing up (in a simpler era when crooked people were called cheats, not “ethically challenged”; when a “face…
Majority, Minorities & Democracy
byDemocracy is defined as ‘a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or…