Cross Connections

Should the son of a man considered a terrorist be feted for scoring 95 per cent marks and topping the 10th board exams?  Afzal Guru is no...

Veerappan Veerappan was probably the last of the bandits. Shot dead in 2004 by the security forces that he eluded for a good few decad...

We all know that terrorist groups like claiming responsibility for terror attacks. The reason is not always to mislead, unless there is a s...

Omar Abdullah is trapped between the BJP and the Hurriyat. At any other time it would have been a wonderful place to be in, berated by two e...

Every few months the Afzal Guru mercy petition is brought out for airing. This time the government has advised the President to reject his p...

Almost as soon as he took over as Ajmal Kasab's lawyer, Abbas Kazmi said he wasn't sure if his client was a Pakistani. As a defence ...

Afzal Guru is under pressure. Psychological and of some other kind. Yes, go ahead and accuse me of harbouring one more conspiracy theory. Th...

It's not our duty to expedite Afzal's execution, says SC The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking directi...

Thackeray's 'Hairy' Encounter By Farzana Versey 01 February, 2007, Countercurrents Instead of asking Bal Thackeray to apologise ...

Another petition to the President for clemency for Mohammed Afzal . You decide. There is already enough material on the web, most of you hav...

I felt I was watching a Manmohan Desai film, you know about lost-and-found brothers. Only this time there was a Ramgopal Verma twist to it t...

Whoopee! Two of the biggest cuckoo cases have jumped onto the ‘ Guru ho ja shuroo’ bandwagon. Instead of reading Urdu novels and the Quran ...

In a rather unusual development, Colin Gonsalves, who represented Mohammed Afzal in the high court has written an open letter to clarify abo...

India would not have got Independence had hanging served as a deterrent to terrorist activity. Our freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Chand...