Category: Current Affairs

Testing the limits of minority appeasement

From Minority rule in Andhra Pradesh by Dr T.H.Chowdary*, these extraordinary examples that probably test the limits of minority appeasement: On the 18th of Oct a number of Christian organizations under the leadership of Archbishop Rev....

Will we get such a leader?

From “The Leader We Deserve” by Michael Kinsley…Although the article is about Obama, McCain and the US, it could have easily been written for India. Peace and prosperity. During the last decade of the 20th...

W’end Reading: Nandan Nilekani, Narendra Modi & History

Start this weekend by finding out why Nandan Nilekani feels obliged to use his position and ideas “to make a difference to a country on verge of transformation”. Continue with Why India needs Narendra Modi…. and...

Changing India – Step I

Dear Friends, Thanks to all of you for an overwhelming response to my two posts: Who is B Shantanu? and Changing India – One Step at a Time. I am more hopeful than ever before and absolutely...

Of Thiru Karunanidhi, Tilak and Secular Fundamentalism

….and a deja-vu moment. Courtesy Sridhar, this news-item from earlier today: Karuna does it again, flays Hindus for sporting tilaks Flaying the Hindu practice of smearing ash or saffron or sporting a ’tilak’ on the...