Category: Politics and Governance in India

We know its Pakistan but we hope its not!

Three days after the tragedy in Hyderabad, here is what our Hon. Ext Affairs Minister had to say*: Pakistani missions in several other countries have been indulging in anti-India propaganda, External Affairs Minister Pranab...

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...

Saffron? Sorry, wrong colour

If “proof” was really needed on why the Left parties vetoed both the initial “nominees” from Congress for the post of President, here is Dr Karan Singh in an interview to the Indian Express...

Taslima Nasreen and a deafening silence

Came across a great post by Sandeep on the recent assault on Taslima Nasreen in Hyderabad. Some things stand out in this remarkable episode: The deafening silence of the liberal activists on the incident...

A fresh look at Reservations and Quotas

This has been one of my longest posts in the making…taking almost two months since I first started putting down my thoughts on this issue. To a large extent this was because I wanted...