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

Turn the pages of a newspaper, surf television channels, visit news websites. What you get to see is plenty of freedom. Everybody is free ...

It takes a death to bring us alive to what we are, but choose to ignore. The question is: How long will this wake-up call last? Are we...

The Right to Information Act is in the news again because Rahul Gandhi spoke about it. This is what I had written earlier : The RTI Act m...

Soon after the first shot was fired in the first scene, I felt uncomfortable. Anything to do with the riots of 1993 produces a pit-of-the-...

Ruling Anarchy: The Labs of Boston, Woolwich, Chhattisgarh by Farzana Versey, CounterPunch, June 1-3 “As we heard ...

When politicians do some introspection, they are planning to quit their party, or have got wind of being thrown out, or they have decided ...

Nothing has moved me as much today as the words of the brother of the Delhi gangrape victim. Here are a few quotes from the report : •“It...

The big bang reshuffle that took place on Sunday is only a whimper.    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announcing the new Cabinet member...

We have seen how the 2G scam unfolded. Important people were packed off to jail. The really prominent names were not. No Tata, no Ambani. Th...

Doctored CDs are not new. So, the latest news that the conversations between Mulayam Singh Yadav, Amar Singh and Shanti Bhushan have been ta...

When was the last time that SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) nations made any significant contribution to solve issu...

Punk activism I don’t know about all those commitment wallas but I did what I have never done before. I switched on the TV still in my sa...

The Indian youth are out in the streets, in car and bike rallies, to support an aging activist’s fight against corruption. Anna Hazare and ...

Do not expect the UID (Unique Identity) scheme to track absconders and the corrupt. It will see to it that the backward remain where they ...