Agent Provocateur

A response to Salil Tripathi - I 1984 and 2002 are not comparable. Rarely, if ever, have I commented on an article penned by a fellow writer...

It can be a punishment worse than death The ancient Greeks, who were otherwise sensibly cynical about suffering and pain in love and war, wo...

Congress's no-limit, interest-free, Minority Card ( It's the world's best credit card, issued by Vote Bank of India! ) Nothing c...

First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and...

When books are burned in the end people will be burned too -- Heinrich Heine. Nazis burning books at Bebelplatz, Berlin, April 1933 Every v...

What’s the BSP complaining about? Nobody quite remembers In and Out at the Park, Kolkata’s first discotheque, probably because it never quit...

They collaborated with Pakistan's murderous, rapacious Army in 1971 This Friday, December 16, Bangladesh will celebrate the 40th anniver...

Public memory in this wondrous land of ours being remarkably short, we rarely, if ever, remember commitments made by our leaders. That makes...

On Sunday, November 6, I spoke on 'Law alone cannot end corruption' at the Shala organised by Takshashila in Chennai. You can wa...

Two years after Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed, along with his lieutenants and cadre, and the LTTE obliterated by the Sri Lankan Army, th...

Following the publication of my Sunday column, Coffee Break, headlined ' NaMo proposes, PM disposes ', readers wanted further detail...

Recalling the terrifying pogrom of November 1984 that left thousands of Sikh men, women and children dead -- killed by Congress thugs At 9.3...

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No...

Ahmadinejad repeats his rant! On Thursday, Iran's Islamofascist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in full flow at the UN General Assembl...

The fact remains that the Quetta Shura and the Haqqani Network operate from Pakistan with impunity... Pakistan’s military and political esta...

Just so that amnesia can't be pretended! "It is the Congress that has engineered most of the riots... Rajiv Gandhi failed to protec...