Cross Connections

He is a criminal. And a godman. He operates from a fortress that he calls an ashram. And his followers are armed. This man should have bee...

Why are we a part of so much noise? Sometime last month, a friend from Pakistan sent me a text message after a long gap of non-communicati...

Narendra Modi is officially the new Prime Minister of India. L.K.Advani, who had expressed reservations about his candidature in public,...

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The BJP seems to be in a mulligatawny soup, and that is as English as you can get. India's literacy is not something to be proud of, s...

BJP Prez in Sharon Stone moment This is your friendly neighbourhood BJP party president, Nitin Gadkari. If I were to deconstruct this...

and a dash of Modi... a Kejriwal at the protest This time I am with Kiran Bedi because I know where she stands. Whatever be her persona...

The red carpet walk where Narendra Modi pirouetted at the BJP’s national executive meeting was like a film star at Cannes endorsing a cosm...

...and the rest of India wants to be foreign It is shameful that the chief of a ‘nationalist’ group, the RSS, feels that India was better o...

Inked face and assaulter We are a culture that thrives on condemning. We condemn those who are silent and we also condemn those who make...

The Pakistani flag is hoisted on New Year's Eve in India. At the tahsildar's office at Sindgi town in Bijapur, Karnataka. Was ther...

I think our Prime Minister is not weak; he knows his so-called weakness works in his favour . Therefore, L.K.Advani may be sighing with Hiss...

Aseemanand is right. He probably has been forced to confess to his role in the bomb blasts in the Ajmer dargah, Mecca mosque, Malegaon and ...

The problem with these educated politicians is that they think they are being clever and don’t realise that those quotes they bark out coul...

Time to come out Had anyone heard Rahul Gandhi talk about ‘Hindu terrorism’ before? Then why is everyone jumping the gun and accusing hi...

What should have been thunder is a whimper. Arun Shourie’s accusations against the BJP of which he was an intrinsic part reveal that you can...

It needs to be said, but political expediency is not the right reason. The AICC session is meant to be a forum for the Congress to pat its o...

Political expediency can be this obvious: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has formally agreed to become the brand ambassador. Bachchan ...

I am not terribly enthused about the 1,000 page report by Justice M S Liberhan. It says what has been said so many times these past so many ...

From tomorrow there won't be any pre-paid mobile connections allowed in Kashmir. That region was given cellphones after years and now th...