Category: India & Its Neighbours

Voices of caution on SethuSamudram

First from Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, “150-year dream for 150-year old ships” Excerpts: “…Dreams are costless, but canals are not. Project documents claim that the canal will save ships 36 hours of time and...

“India Breaking” – Read this and Weep

This is a sad story of the North East. It is a first-person account of how bad things are in the beautiful land of the “seven sisters” – in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and...

Comrades-in-arms: UPA & Pakistani “militants”

Most of you must have already read about the clumsy handling of the SethuSamudram affidavit by UPA last week. But this particular post on the issue caught my eye. In “The Ramayana, the Sethusamudram...

Hyderabad Blues* – II

Things are beginning to look interesting. Praveen Swamy writes in The Hindu’s Op-Ed (extract): “…A mass of credible electronic intelligence suggests that HuJI’s director of south India operations, Abdul Sahel Mohammad, operates out of...