Few people expected the positive outcome of Brexit referendum. Among other doubters, I expected the UK government will borrow a trick from the Clinton collection, and proclaim the Bremain hath it.
We witnessed so many dirty tricks in the Dem primary this year: the votes were not counted, but the newspapers called Hillary the winner; millions could not vote ...
No one believed in this victory. Even most of those who led the campaign for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union did not expect that on the morning of June 24, 2016 it would be announced that the majority voted in favor of a break with the Brussels bureaucracy and the policies pursued during the last quarter...
Cracks are appearing in the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central Government led over the issue of Genetically Modified (transgenic) crops. The Union Ministry of Environment & Forests has revived a committee to consider proposals on new GM crops (Minister Prakash Javadekar bats for the technology on grounds of food security), while the Union Ministry...
Chapeau, Mr Browder! Hats off for this incredible man. Last month, he succeeded in stopping a film screening in the European parliament and took off a few articles from American web sites. This week, he turned the only US screening of a film critical to his version of events into a ruckus. No freedom of speech for his enemies! His lawyers prowl around and is...
The Old Testament prophet Isaiah predicted that “navigation, especially that which is commercial, shall be one great means of carrying on the work of God.” Having lived a few thousand years before the East India Company began to trade and annex parts of India, he couldn’t have known, except through miraculous prophecy, that the 18th and 19th century evangeli...
Let’s start with the Kafkaesque internal turmoil. The coup against President Dilma Rousseff remains an unrivalled media theatre/political tragicomedy gift that keeps on giving. It also doubles as a case of information war converted into a strategic tool of political control.
A succession of appalling audio leaks has revealed that key sectors of the Brazilia...
As the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department of Tamil Nadu government has been irresponsible in the maintenance of cows and goshalas in its Temples, after more than a dozen cows died in the goshala of Thiruvannamalai temple, animal welfare activist and writer Radha Rajan filed a Writ Petition (WP 28793 & 28794 of 2013) in the Madras...
Bahurupajayi Laksminidhir acyutataadam
Samalam sa nrshimho ‘tha daityasriyam ivadunot
Thus memorializes Jonaraja, the Kashmiri historian, of the first attack on Bahurupa (modern day Beerwa) around 1338. The victorious general was none other than Shah Mir who was the treacherous commander in chief of Kashmir under Kota Rani and her husband Udyandeva. The...
The British left India in 1947 and before giving up the control of the subcontinent they gave to the Muslims and Hindus a parity to decide and determine about the very character, form and contours of a Hindu India and a Muslim India, perpetually divided and hostile to each other’s existence.
A Muslim India, called Pakistan, was created to the East...
Against the backdrop of the numerous discussions of the political agenda, appearance, and vocabulary of the candidates running in the American presidential election, there is almost no demand for one subject: what is the class nature and mass social base of each politician? This approach comes naturally to the right-wing and liberal media, but why is it comp...
The tortoise pace of over a hundred thousand court cases in the Supreme Court and lower courts have almost paralysed the basic objective of delivering justice to the people of a democracy speedily, fairly and without obstruction and pain of any kind.
We have reached the stage when it’s not a joke that solicitors and lawyers speak of the number of decades...
Towards the end of April this year, the Chief Justice of India shed tears on a public platform, mourning the humongous backlog of court cases in the country, and attributed it largely to the large number of vacancies in the subordinate judiciary being ignored by the executive.
Yes, the fact that there are just “21,000 judges in India as against the 40,000 e...
On 23 July 1908, Tilak was sentenced to transportation to Mandalay, Burma. This news shocked Indians staying in London. They organized a meeting to condemn this sentence and requested the Moderate leader Gopal Krishna Gokhale who was in London at that time to chair the meeting. Gokhale not only declined their request but failed to attend the meeting. This en...
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated at 5.17 pm on 30 January 1948. On 31 January, police raided Savarkar’s residence and seized some correspondence. The then office-bearers of the Hindu Mahasabha (HMS) had issued a statement condemning Gandhi’s assassination. Nonetheless, in a separate statement dated 4 February 1948, Savarkar, who was then Vice-President of the...
Poor Saudi Arabia. They don’t realize it yet but they have lost their oil war. The war in its current phase began in September, 2014, when the dying King Abdullah and his Minister of Petroleum, Ali Al-Naimi, told US Secretary of State John Kerry they would gladly join Washington in plunging world oil prices. It became clear the main Saudi motive was to elimi...
The issue of the return of Kashmiri Hindu exiles has captured national attention in recent weeks. Along with it has surfaced the issue of establishment of a Sainik Colony in Kashmir for retired Army personnel of Jammu & Kashmir. There have been large-scale protests and rhetoric in the valley over the two issues. The response to both issues from the valley-ba...
In recent times, two books have captured the essence of the dilemmas and challenges facing the contemporary Muslim world, viz., The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State by Tarek Fatah (2015) and Jihadist Threat to India by Tufail Ahmad (2016). By a strange coincidence, both authors are sub-continental Muslims who have, with unemotional academic rigour, traced...
During her 4 years as Secretary of State of the United States (2009-2014), Hillary Clinton controlled US foreign policy. She had access to the most confidential information and state documents, numbering in the tens of thousands, from all of the major government departments and agencies, Intelligence, FBI, the Pentagon, Treasury and the office of the Preside...
“Would those who brazenly annex a Hindu temple keep mum when a Moslem girl loves a Hindu boy? Hell befall upon the lad!” states the documentary and presents the sad story of a girl whose Hindu husband was brutally murdered for marrying her and not converting to Islam.
Edalakudy, a thickly populated area dominated by Muslims, is situated 3 kms from Nagerc...
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The road to Raqqa, capital of the phony ISIS/ISIL/Daesh “Caliphate”, will continue to be a riddle wrap...
Beirut: As of May 15, 2016, according to Save the Children and an assortment of UN agencies and NGO’s, nearly 7 million people are displaced within Syria, half of them are children and more than two million of the youngsters are at risk of becoming ill, malnourished, abused, or exploited. In rural areas of Damascus one in 20 children is severely malnourished...
Two recent incidents involving Temple elephants have hurt our sensibilities. One, the sad demise of female elephant Maduravalli after prolonged illness, and the other, the shifting of three elephants from Kanchi Kamakshi Amman Temple to a rehabilitation centre for treatment. On the one side, we have the welfare of Temple elephants; on the other, we have cent...
It is a universal conviction that history never repeats. However, in the case of God’s Own Country (the landscape created by Parasurama), for the last five decades, specifically in its political scenario, history repeats itself. Hitherto every five years the people of Kerala were left with no option but to let the same malice which they were forced to throw ...
To understand why Savarkar did not support the 1942 Quit India Movement, one needs to probe its background. In an article written in Harijan (18 April 1942), Gandhi suggested immediate withdrawal of the British from India. The Congress Working Committee which met in Allahabad on 29 April to 1 May 1942 considered Gandhi’s resolution on World War II which he h...
On 10 May 1937, Savarkar was released unconditionally from internment in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. He had been in political exile for nearly 25 years. Fate was to give him only a decade in active politics. Years of hardship in the Andamans had wrecked his health. In 1940, 1941 and again in 1942, Savarkar had expressed his desire to resign as Preside...
It was more than seven decades ago that the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Japan, obliterating the city of Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people and ushering in a new era of nuclear conflict.
Now, President Barack Obama has become the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima. Obama made it clear in his interview with Japan’s public ...
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in the American way, along with the salivating violence of the Chicago police at the Democratic Party’s rigge...
The maverick in Subramanian Swamy has been a great positive in our politics. With characteristic audacity, Swamy has taken on “untouchables” (e.g. Atal Behari Vajpayee, Sonia Gandhi), destroyed carefully constructed myths and demolished undeserved reputations. He has articulated forcefully and brilliantly the Hindu position on issues ranging from the Ram tem...
Notwithstanding their extreme ideological differences with Savarkar, contemporary Congressmen and Socialists never questioned his patriotism or bravery. In 1944, Mahatma Gandhi said, “Sacrifice is the link that binds both of us together”. In 1937, Rajaji lauded him saying, “Savarkar is a symbol of courage, bravery, fearlessness and intense patriotism and...
I came to Japan for the preview of Obama’s visit, when the G7 foreign ministers assembled at Hiroshima, led by the US State Secretary John Kerry. He should apologise, people said. You do not think Kerry apologised for nuking the city, did you? Neither did Obama. The Americans never apologise, banish the thought. Love means never having to say you’re sorry, a...