Category: Current Affairs

What is stopping you from joining active politics?

Some of you would remember NDTV’s “Big Fight” from a few weeks back where the topic was “Younger politicians - time to take over“. I had taken some notes while watching the programme and what...

“Three Hundred Ramayanas” & “The Jewel of Medina”

Last week, responding to a petition to ban a history textbook, the Supreme Court asked Delhi University’s expert panel to consider the views of petitioners before submitting a final report to the Vice-Chancellor. As some...

Jamia Nagar: A dangerous cocktail…

…of vote-bank politics, breakdown in law and order, land mafias and alienated ghettoes. Please read on… I received this email about the Jamia Nagar encounter last weekend. It is from Shri Anant Trivedi. Sh Trivedi is...

Alaskonomics and Bihar – Part I

I chanced upon this article in the latest issue of TIME magazine. It has some very interesting data about taxes and spending in Alaska. After about an hour of google search today, I found...

This is how China treats its religious minorities

Some of you may have picked up the news on Friday that US has (once again) included China in its list of  “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPCs) mentioned in the International Religious Freedom’s annual report*. ...