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...
A sordid political struggle for power is underway in Bangaluru, Karnataka. Defections, money laundering and much else feature in this set piece drama. The saving grace is the integrity of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, who has refused,...
The bruising election campaign over, the victor was magnanimous, understood that peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war, political as much as military. Democracy thrives, the nation thrives, when the people appreciate that what...
The swearing-in of the 57 senior and junior ministers - with Arun Jaitley standing down as Finance Minister on grounds of continuing ill health - by President Ram Nath Kovind was a glittering affair, a pageant if you will, but one that was truly...
The 2019 Election melodrama waxes and wanes full of sound and fury signifying for the most part an unceasing vulgarity, which now and again descends into music hall comedy. The third part of the seven phases of voting was duly completed on schedule,...
Sri Lanka, the pearl of the Orient, was laid low by a series of eight coordinated bombings across the country which, according to early reports, had resulted in 310 or more deaths. The iconic Roman Catholic Cathedral in the capital Colombo and...
The most divisive, abusive general election campaign in living memory ended its first phase merciful on April 10, with voting beginning the following day. The campaign resumed and descended at times to the pits; the BJP, on one occasion, described...
The great Indian rope trick mutated from fiction to iconic fact, as the country’s first killer satellite soared into space bringing India membership of the exclusive club of, which includes the United States, Russia (both pioneering leaders)...
Amidst the brouhaha of the Lilliputians, a giant was gathered to his fathers. Manohar Parrikar, longtime Chief Minister of Goa and former Indian Defence Minister die at his home in Panaji, having lost his battle with cancer of the pancreas. ...
India’s future historians may look on February 25, 2019 as a milestone in the country’s journey from soft to hard state, The first baby step was taken back in October 1947 when the Pakistan sponsored Pathan tribal invasion of the Kashmir valley...
Kashmir continues to dominate Indian media discourse. In the wake of the tragic deaths of 40 Indian soldiers of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force and their aftermath, not to speak of the wider diplomatic and strategic ramifications,...
