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…
Opinions
Opinions
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…
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…
Powerless Sayeed – misplaced critique of J&K coalition government
byFrankly I did not know who Mr Fahad Shah was till I checked on the net and after that I had no illusion on…
The NJAC Debate: Purple Prose and Red Herrings
byIf you thought that the discord over the National Judicial Appointments Commission( NJAC) and the sparring between the government and the Judiciary was about…
NJAC judgement and the way forward
byA lot has been said and written supporting and criticizing the NJAC judgment delivered by the Supreme Court of India (following the convention, it…