Agent Provocateur

Hyderabad bombing: Killed by Islamists but Muslims won't admit it! Islam’s enemy within At a recent conference on radical Islam, attende...

All that glitters is not Dubai The shockingly superfluous reportage of life in Dubai in Indian newspapers and news magazines, which would ha...

Punjabi munda despoiling Goa It's hot and muggy in Goa this time of the year. The enervating heat hangs languidly in the still air. The ...

A decade after May 11, 1998 Ten years ago this Sunday, India stealthily conducted three nuclear tests at Pokhran, sending shockwaves around ...

Israel, at 60, shows admirable grit Our newspapers and 24x7 news channels went gaga over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's stopove...

Rushdie's Akbar isn't so great In the day's last light the glowing lake below the palace-city looked like a sea of molten gold. ...

Torch relay was a pathetic farce Early last week the popular news portal, rediff.com, carried a delightful story about how China’s men in bl...

Hungry kya? But there’s no food It’s been a week of disconcerting news. Events at home and abroad, along with grim predictions by those who ...

Lost evenings of Kaal Boishakhi There was no intimation of a storm when I left home for work last Thursday. It was only after I hit National...

Our liberty and future are at stake The resolution adopted by Muslim theologians representing the various schools of Islam at the All-India ...

India's Lajja: Taslima leaving for freedom Dissident Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has decided that rather than suffer solitary con...

Oh! Calcutta was disappointing Even during the Swingin’ Sixties, records of the times inform us that official London was quite stuffy and st...

OIC's sinister message The Organisation of Islamic Conference, whose membership is understandably restricted to 57 Islamic countries, at...

Artistic freedom yes, but not with Aurangzeb Artistic freedom in increasingly 'secular' India has come to mean the right to denigrat...

Khalistan, via US, Britain, Canada An artist's drawing of the Air India trial shows (L to R) accused Ripudaman Singh Malik holding a boo...