January 2016

January 16 : In what is presently widely being termed in the international omniscient official circles of all hues as resounding victory of ModiGeeree ( {Mahatma} GandhiGeeree of 2016=ModiGeeree ) --- to be…

The continuous bad feeling between India and Pakistan has resulted in Pakistan's latest plans of terrorists' attacks on India. This continued cold war shows the ultimate culmination of rage of Pakistan against India. The relations…

Me ne frego ("I don’t give a damn!"): the Italian Fascist motto. Libro e moschetto, fascista perfetto Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato(“Everything in the State, nothing outside the…

Thanks to irrepressible, unobtrusive West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata “MamataDeedee” Banerjee’s inveterate efforts for it, the state West Bengal has secured investment of over Rs 250,000 crore, a miniscule fraction of fractions…

IN today’s India, secular liberals face a challenge: how to stay alive. In August, 77-year-old scholar M. M. Kalburgi, an outspoken critic of Hindu idol worship, was gunned down on his own doorstep. In February, the communist leader…

Scheme plagued by slow pace of bank sanctions and delay in disbursement of margin money. The Narendra Modi government’s ambitious project to generate jobs in the country seems to be floundering. The recalcitrant banks are…

England’s churches can survive – but the religion will have to go…The buildings are beautiful, but too many remain empty. They will regain their focus only if they convert to a communal role. England’s biggest, most plentiful,…

Who can resist War and Peace? When it was a 1,300-page Russian novel, the answer was: plenty of us. But now it’s on television, its second episode airing on BBC1on Sunday, millions of Britons find it just too tempting. A…

Akhand Bharat is misread as a political programme of party or government. Let me reiterate that the Akhand Bharat doctrine is a cultural and people-centric idea. I was not even remotely suggesting that we should redraw the…

Amid opinion/s of “any move for construction of new Parliament building will amount to the destruction of not just a historical monument but also a historical temple of democracy” and fast-consolidating construction of new Parliament…

What if a class-action suit came up in the U.S. courts on the ripping-off of Indian domestic workers there? That fear drives the government’s outraged response to Devyani Khobragade’s arrest In the Devyani Khobragade drama, the…

 Recently the literary fraternity is going to celebrate the Centenary Celebration of Satchidananda Routray, popularly known as Sachi Routray who breathed his last on 24 August, 2004 was best known for his poetry, acclaimed to be…

Chhindwara MP, Sonia Gandhi-loyalist, Congress-thinker, Rahul-shaker, Priyanka-promoter, non-controversial (his contemporaries during late Sanjay Gandhi-era Jagdish Tytler, Akbar Ahmed Dumpy, Sajjan Kumar, H K L Bhagat etc, etc…

It cannot happen where language is corroded, resentment is paramount. In 2016, let’s reset ourselves. The assessment of the year past, the balance sheet of hits and misses, can be drawn up in different ways, depending on one’s…

Delhi governed by whims and fancies of Aam Aadmi Party chief minister Arvind Kerjriwal and National Green Tribunal (NGT) is apparently working on “truthiness”, things which are not true but one wishes were true, a term popularized…

Donald Trump has us all spun up in a bogus debate over the meaning of what constitutes a “natural born” citizen and whether Canadian-born Ted Cruz is thereby ineligible for the presidency. The conversation we should be having is…

The Pathankot attack on 2nd Jan 2016 is highly monstrous and cowardice. In the attack India lost many of his heroes.  Media reports suggested that the attack was an attempt to derail a fragile peace process meant to stabilise the…

Pradhan Mantri Narendra Modi scored a “perfect 10” consummating coup de grace--- not possible, according to diplomatic circles, today in view of 24x7x365surveillance, vigilance from all types of sleuths---  in Russia followed by…

Pradhan Mantri Shri Narendra Modi is absolutely right when he made a ‘secret’ airdash to Pakistan because in the prevailing circumstances between India’s immediate neighbor and India, too many cooks spoil the broth resulting in never-ending…

The Ist N-City when completed in 2017 would be "the subcontinent's largest military-run complex of nuclear centrifuges, atomic-research laboratories, and weapons- and aircraft-testing facilities" India’s Ist N-City {for H-bomb}…

India emerged as the fastest growing large economy in 2015 and a possible regional leader. Modinomics is doing some wonders for paving a possible faster growth in 2016. The positives have come from large promises of FDI from…

The ‘official’ Ambedkar is more and more different from After decades of neglect, one of the finest minds and statesmen of India, B.R. Ambedkar, is now invoked by almost everybody on the public scene. The…

If 2015 yielded extraordinary results in terms of cooperation between the two countries, greater ambitions have been set for 2016.           One year ago this week, my family and I were excitedly packing for the…

The United States would have had to admit about 4 million refugees this year to take in a similar proportion of its population. It has fallen more than 3.9 million short of that mark. Most of the refugees in Germany are from…

FOR the first six years of the Obama era, many Republicans made an apocalyptic case against the president’s health care law. It was unconstitutional, immoral, borderline tyrannical. It wouldn’t just fail: It would fail…