Fascist onslaught and the secular backlash
Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam / On October 12, Sudhendra Kulkarni, journalist and aide to former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, was forcibly painted black by Shiv Sena goons for attending…
EX-CAG Vinod Rai was denied opportunity to work in Nagaland
– Nirendra Dev Perhaps the only way of dealing with volumes of information – facts and fictions, rumours and truth and probably life and death – ‘Information Overload’ for a…
Islamophobia in Assam leading to Polarisation among Hindus
– Nirendra Dev The Hindu-Muslim relationship and the much talked about religious minorities are the flavour of the season. To top it all has been the release of Population by…
Teachers’ Day, 2015 – A Memento of memories
By Nirendra Dev India has created a new record, and a good one. Incidentally chief protagonists are two time-tested politicians! Both the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the President Pranab…
Corrective strategy must for Indian Muslims
By M. Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India / The Muslims of India constitute a community of 180 million, amounting to a little over 14 percent of the population of…
Failure of Indo-Pak TALKS – Who loses, Who gains?
By Nirendra Dev / The big news is not the cancellation of Sartaz Aziz-Ajit Doval – National Security Advisors level talks between Pakistan and India – it is perhaps a…
Paradox of Bhagalpur riots
By – Nirendra Dev / Lalu Prasad, who ironically turned a die-hard Congress ally and especially a Sonia Gandhi-admirer in later stage, on December 29, 1989, had made a blistering…
Without 2002 Gujarat Mayhem, Dr. Kalam could have missed Rashtrapati Bhavan
By Nirendra Dev Mehnat itni khamoshi se karo ki safalta shor macha dey (Work hard so much silently that your success story becomes a national/global craze) The above quote will…
Maggi row: Contamination in food items not new to India
By Nirendra Dev Amid hyped row over Maggi noodles, consumer activists and even political leaders say the contamination in food items is not a new phenomenon in India as similar…
Time to look beyond capitalism
ASHOK B SHARMA As lingering financial crisis in the developed world is casting its shadow on the developing countries, it is time to look beyond capitalism for sustainable and equitable…