Pak-US ties dip to historic low
The US-Pakistan ties have gone into a never-before low. And that is not good for India. The recent killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a NATO attack has made the two countries come to a cold war and the war of words has not ceased since then. An angry Pakistan went to the extent of [...]
Hope of a new dawn in Kashmir brightens
On the face of it, one can say the time to celebrate peace in Kashmir has come. But there are a few doubtful minds to question this kind of optimism and say that this could be the calm before the storm. For months now, Kashmir has been more peaceful than many other trouble-torn parts of [...]
Swiss bank accounts hysteria grips India
The Swiss bank account hysteria has gripped Indian Opposition leaders’ minds. In fact, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s senior leader, L K Advani, has just concluded his nationwide yatra to ‘wake up the people’ against the menace of unaccounted money in foreign banks, particularly in Swiss ones. There are different versions of the total amount stacked [...]
Rahul Gandhi : The roadblocks ahead
Will he or will he not? That is the question on every Indian’s tongue today. We are talking of Rahul Gandhi, 41, the scion of Nehru-Gandhi family, on whether he will take over the reigns of India’s historic political party, the Indian National Congress, from his mother Sonia Gandhi. The question was always there, but [...]
Khushwant’s ‘Malice’ goes off and on
Khushwant Singh, the grand old man of Indian journalism, had quietly hung up his pen! And then, four weeks after the suspension of his column, it did a mysterious resurfacing. As in the case of the re-start, there were no announcements even for the ‘wind-up’, until his readers got to learn about the ‘end’ in [...]
Has Indian media really gone wayward?
Has the Indian media gone wayward and irresponsible in reporting and presenting views? Or, is it misusing its freedom of free expression to do whatever it likes to do? Certainly not, and by no means it can be accused of unnecessary self-indulgence. But the government of India does not seem to be thinking this way. [...]
Lessons for India and the United States
These days we are not spared of the daily dose of bad news regarding the sorry affair of the financial position in the Western countries. That has had its vicious grip even on Eastern countries’ economy too. India has been almost in a crippled situation for the last two years and its economic growth seems [...]
India: The beautiful and the damned
The two faces of India, the bright and the ugly, seem to have become good fodder for aspiring as well as established writers. Just a few months ago, Booker winning author Aravinda Adiga in his book, The Last Man in Tower, had painted the good and the bad and the brighter and the uglier aspects [...]