Agent Provocateur

Mark Sofer, Israel’s Ambassador to India, is returning home after completing his tenure. During the four years he has spent in India, our bi...

But what about our desi media? When it was launched in London on October 1, 1843, the promoters of News of the World were absolutely clear ...

The juggernaut moves on The venerable Economist has finally taken note of what is common knowledge in India: Gujarat is racing ahead of the...

Muslims must resist democracy, says Hizb ut Tahrir The various statements and speeches made at the ‘ Uprising in the Muslim World ’ conferen...

Years ago I used to regularly write a column for Rediff which would be published under the tag 'Agent Provocateur', from which this ...

HERE'S WISHING EVERYBODY A VERY HAPPY 1418!

Cash helped him win trust vote! ( A spoof poster that did the rounds after Congress won July 22, 2008 vote. ) The standard operating procedu...

Spiteful act, deplorable deed The Congress is just not reconciled to the idea of Gujarat, more specifically Narendra Modi, showing the way t...

Another voice is silenced with jihadi guns Pakistan’s Minister for Religious Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated on Wednesday, March ...

Surrendering before terror Events of a quarter century ago are rarely remembered, especially in a country like India where the masses have ...

The Arab palace has begun to fear the Arab street. And the Arab street has begun to sense that fear. T he Arab palace will never be the same...

Regime mounts counter-assault A mazing scenes were witnessed on Wednesday at Tehrir Square when hundreds of ‘supporters’ of President Hosni ...

What now? A week after protesters took to the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez demanding President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, the man ...

An elusive contact becomes a key interlocutor for Americans! Contrary to media reports and popular perception, the ‘secret’ cable despatched...

We The People Are Corrupt! It’s virtually impossible to check the veracity of AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa’s assertion that the loss to the...

66 die in Delhi house collapse. Does anybody care? On Monday night a five-storey illegally constructed residential building in east Delhi ca...

He inspired me to seek a living from the written word Poet-translator-teacher. That’s how newspapers described Professor Purushottam Lal — ...