Verdict on Godhra; Farcical conspiracy
A.J. PHILIPTHERE are some incidents in life which we never forget. I was tuning into my transistor radio at Wild Grass, a “technology-free” tourist resort at Kaziranga in Assam, when…
Time to revive Congress in TN
BOSCO CELESTINE The outcome of the upcoming April 13 elections to the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly is bound to bring about dimensional change in the politics of the state. It…
Murder of a Mosque
A.J. PHILIPWHEN a friend Shahrukh Alam invited me, on behalf of The Patna Collective, to a workshop on “And what could they possibly want? Engaging the ‘faithful’: Secularism, Social Development…
The fall of ‘Sykes-Picot’ regime
ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHANThe upheaval in the Arab World these days is the second attempt within half a century to bring down the treacherous Sykes-Picot regime imposed on the region after the…
Religious terrorists do not exist
A.J. PHILIPA Hindu religious leader’s recent confession that some major terrorist attacks in India in the past were the handiwork of a “Hindu” group has lent a new dimension to…
India’s republic robust yet lacking
A.J. PhilipIndia celebrates its 62nd Republic Day on January 26. For Indians, this day is more important than Independence Day because it was on Republic Day that India gave itself…
What’s next for Egypt?
By Dina Ezzat After four military communiqu...s issued by the now ruling Higher Military Council (HMC) in the wake of the stepping down of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's future seems…
Message from Egypt
BOSCO CELESTINE How many times, history has to remind humanity that the greatest force on earth is-the power of the people. Who would have dreamt a month ago, that the…
Tahrir Square; the new fountain of democracy
ASHOK B SHARMA Tahrir Square and Tiananmen Square will be remembered in history for two different reasons. The former gave strength to the people movement across the world, while the…
Black money, blackens Indian democracy
BY ASHOK B SHARMAWhat is ailing India, the world’s largest democracy? It is the saga of corruption going unabated – be it relating to the Commonwealth Games, allocation of 2-G…