Agent Provocateur

  My Second Innings Comes to an End. My long, rather very long, second innings with The Pioneer comes to an end on May 31. ...

And Congress wants States to wage war on terrorism! [ Visual shows mayhem caused by serial bombings of July 26, 2008 serial bombings i...

According to Press Information Bureau, the following information was given March 19, 2012, by Minister for Defence AK Antony and Minister of...

A response to Salil Tripathi - II Facts are sacred; comment is free. In his column ‘Here, There, Everywhere’, published in Mint under the h...

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...