The massive scale on which Ram Navami (Ram’s legendary birthday) and Hanuman Jayanti (the monkey god Hanuman’s birthday) were celebrated in different parts of India indicate a new trend in …
This year marks the birth centenary of the famous film director Ritwik Ghatak. It is a daunting effort – trying to fathom the depths of Ritwik Ghatak’s tortured soul…
Our eating habits and choice of food are increasingly coming under pressure from the ruling party and its vigilantes, who are turning food into yet another issue of political contest. …
A controversial comment by a Maharashtra Samajwadi Party MLA who happens to be a Muslim, has kicked up a row among political circles. The MLA, Abu Asim Azmi on March …
“Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and sleep o’nights” Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar Two recent events which have caught media headlines …
A pious Hindu lady, Amita Sachdeva, a Delhi-based advocate has kicked up a fuss by demanding an FIR against Delhi Art Gallery for displaying paintings of the famous artist, the …
On the occasion of the celebration of Republic Day on January 26, let me pay my humble tribute to our beloved Prime Minister Narendra Modi. We are proud to have …
“You, the flock of sheep, how unthinking you all are ! When asked to go to the right you march to the right; When shoved to …
US President Donald Trump’s Indian trump card, Narendra Modi is in an angry mood nowadays, sulking like a jilted lover, huffing and puffing. Unwilling to bring out the lovers’ tiff …
Following talks between Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart Admiral Dong Jun in Laos recently (on the sidelines of an ASEAN conference), the Chinese Defence Ministry spokesperson …
A year before Yevgeny Prigozhin led his Wagner group of mercenaries in a mutiny against his patron President Putin in June 2023, a book came out in London revealing the …
On the eve of his retirement, the Chief Justice of India’s hallowed Supreme Court , Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud came out with a shocking ridiculous revelation. At a gathering in his …
Till recently, our prime minister was entertaining the world with his pompous claim as a Vishvaguru to resolve all global conflicts, while trying to impress Indians at home with his …
Of all the regional Opposition leaders, irrespective of their political party affiliations, the chief minister of Bengal, Mamata Banerjee is the closest to prime minister Narendra Modi. This view of …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent world wide tour across the US, Russia and Ukraine, has been given wide coverage by the Indian foreign ministry and Modi’s toady media - bolstering …
The recent case of the rape and killing of a female trainee doctor in the premises of Kolkata’s prestigious R.G. Kar Hospital has drawn all India attention to the murderous…
In a repeat of the same political script, the army has stepped in Bangladesh to replace an elected government. The million dollar query is whether the present army chief who …
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has promised that he will eliminate the `Naxals’ (otherwise known as Maoists) within the next three years. He claims that his government has brought down …
The current crisis which the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is facing from the challenge thrown up by the students, is actually of her own making. All through her successive …
The latest incident of the death of hundreds of devotees in a stampede in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh in the course of a public demonstration of their faith in their …
Every five years, Indians go on a pilgrimage - visiting polling booths to pay respect to their respective political gods, pour their homage in the shape of votes into ballot-boxes,…
On May 9, 1945, the Second World War ended with the defeat of Germany. It heralded the end of fascism. Nearly eighty years after that day, we are witnessing now …
The well-known Punjabi poet Surjit Pattar passed away in Ludhiana on May 11 at the age of 79. He was a recipient of Padma Shri award, and his poems have …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is bombarding us with slogans urging voters to re-elect him for a third term. He is resorting to a three-pronged strategy combining (i) high voltage announcements …
Today, March 8 is celebrated all over the world as the International Women’s Day, when women while commemorating their achievements in political, social, economic and other spheres, also call to …
The Sangh Parivar is creating a hullaballoo with its campaign demanding that every ancient mosque must be subjected to archaeological examination in order to confirm their claim that stones embedded …
When I read the news of the passing away of John Pilger on December 30 last year, I remembered a wonderful evening that I spent with him some forty years …
We keep on hearing about religious sentiments being hurt. The clergy of all religious communities complain of being hurt by utterances or acts that may have been made in public …
It is interesting to observe that the Ram temple in Ayodhya is being inaugurated with the installation of an idol of Ram in the form of a five-year old …
Following the mimicry of the behavior of the Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar, carried out in public by an MP in the precincts of Parliament, which was video-taped by Rahul …
Karl Marx’s oft-quoted observation - “History repeats itself, the first time as a tragedy, and the second time as a farce” keeps echoing in the corridors of the Indian Parliament. …
There is a common saying: `A man who keeps a dog doesn’t need to bark himself.’ But our honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi doesn’t seem to trust the members of …
Our Prime Minister is fond of spreading the traditional Indian message of `Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam,’ welcoming the entire world as one family. But apparently, certain parts of the world are excluded …
Your Lordship, (is that how I should address you ? I’m not sure being a layman). But, leaving out the legalistic formalities, let me congratulate you first on your observations …
“History repeats itself - first time as tragedy/ Second time as farce.” (Karl Marx. 1852) Political commentators, while observing the present situation quite often - and rightly …
Commentators are comparing the Toofan Al-Aqsa offensive by Hamas against Israel with the 1973 Yom Kippur event, when a coalition of Arab armies led by Egypt and Syria, overwhelmed Israeli …
On the plea of decolonizing the nomenclature of our political and administrative system, as well as that used in our socio-cultural habitat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started a campaign …
Our foreign minister S. Jaishankar has …
There is currently an exhibition being held at Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre entitled `Run As Slow As You Can.’ Designed by two eminent Italian artists, Maurizio Cattelan and …
The horrifying video clips showing Manipuri women being stripped and raped, followed …
`A woman, spreading a sack before her like a fish stall/ Sells bodies of little children /Dead from gunshot wounds/ Sprinkling water…
Our Prime Minister chose the right time - may be after consulting his astrologers - to visit the US. With around eight months left for the next parliamentary polls, and …
India under the stewardship of our Prime Minister is gaining accolades from global authorities of all hues - ranging from world leaders seeking commercial collaboration on the one hand, to…
The killing of five Indian soldiers by militants on May 5 in the Rajouri-Poonch sector, once again highlights the failure of our security machinery to protect our jawans. Its agents …
“Dear Shri Narendra Modi ji Please accept my heart felt condolences on the demise of your party, the BJP, in Karnataka. But more than that, I am rather disappointed by …
Our Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s braggadocio that the Islamist terrorists in Kashmir have been eliminated, and our Home Minister Amit Shah’s much touted announcement that the Maoist insurgents (termed officially …
An advance 100th birthday greetings sent to Ranajit Guha by Sumanta Banerjee. Ranajit Guha breathed his last on 28th April 2023 at Vienna Woods in Austria just before his 100th…
New Delhi today sits at the centre of the global summit called G-20 - hosting VIPs from different parts of the world in the midst of pompous demonstrations of Prime …
Our high profile minister of external affairs, S. Jaishankar, who is vociferous both at home and abroad, appears to have landed up in a mess. Some of his recent remarks…
The bagging of the coveted golden statuette by the musical score `Naatu Naatu’ at the Oscars Academy Awards ceremony, has quite predictably set our people dancing in ecstasy, and united …
Linking the name of prime minister Narendra Modi with the god man Asaram Bapu who is now behind bars for raping a girl devotee of his, may offend the sentiments …
I am raising a serious issue that touches upon a person’s legal right of exclusive possession of his/her personal creation - whether a scientific formula, or a literary piece, or …
Latest news from the battlefields of Ukraine indicate that the war game is moving in uncertain and unpredictable directions, and nothing is happening in terms of a final score - …
Way back in 1922 , the Bengali author of comic literature Sukumar Ray (father of the famous film maker Satyajit Ray), composed a poem entitled Act 21, lampooning the system …
While the war rages on in Ukraine, how is the Left facing the multi-dimensional complex challenges thrown up by the war and the ravages that it is heaping upon its …
The term `Concentration Camps’ was used to describe the notorious prisons run by the Nazis in the 1930-40 period in Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz and other places in Germany, and occupied …
On the eve of the retirement of Chief Justice N. V. Ramana from the Supreme Court, it may be worthwhile to examine both his individual performance, and the functioning of …
After taking the oath of office of the President of India, Droupadi Murmu said: “My election is proof of the fact that the poor in India can have dreams and …
“He (Narendra Modi) gifted ittar (perfume derived from natural sources) bottles in zardozi box, crafted in Lucknow, to French President Emmanuel Macron.” (The Times of India, June 29, 2022)…
The Muslim religious practice of Bakrid - being observed in July this year - is in commemoration of an event in past history that is shared by both Islam and …
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