Pathankot terror attack: Inevitable cost of talking to Pakistan
It has happened again. Authorities might not yet have been able to pinpoint the identity of the militants, but at least six of them attacked an Air Force base in Punjab's Pathankot district early Saturday morning, killing two security personnel...
Gandhi’s Agenda Of Prohibition Created Dawood Ibrahim
I have been a lifelong admirer of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, although the reasons for the admiration have changed over time. He was a great political strategist and tactician and one who simultaneously amalgamated moral integrity, popular proclivities and pragmatic politics...
Is Jaitley repeating Manmohan story?
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addressing at the Indian Cost Accounts Service Day in New Delhi on Sunday. Express Photo By amit mehra 09 August 2015 In many ways, Arun Jaitley is the Manmohan Singh of the BJP. Like Singh, he...
Juvenile should not be bound by age but mental capacity; Criminality should be criteria!
Nirbhaya debate in Parliament has missed a crucial point about the constitutional infirmity in both the unamended law and the amended one. The fundamental premise of the juvenile law is that a person who lacks the mental maturity and understanding to...
Nirbhaya juvenile convict imprisoned for life in society!
There seems to be an emotional storm once again in Delhi post the release of juvenile convict of 2012 Delhi gang rape case. Yes the accused is free now and will be leading his life in the society under the...
Why India needs more bad girls
A small band of funny, foul-mouthed female stand-up comics are our modern gender gurus Radhika Vaz. It was the first time she was watching a female stand-up comic riff about sex, ageing and men, and acclaimed Tamil writer P. Sivakami couldn’t...
Fiction over reality: We created Nirbhaya, but killed Jyoti Singh
The moment we created Nirbhaya, we killed Jyoti, we allowed the fictional to overwhelm the original and a pseudonym to box the real character into the shadows. Jyoti, who? Don’t blame yourself if you cannot locate her in your memory....
Why Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi love to hate each other
Does the prime minister really fear a serious challenge from the Delhi chief minister? Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal resorted to hyperbole when he called Prime Minister Narendra Modi “a coward" and "a psychopath.” His formulation was not only uncivil but...
Kejriwal’s ‘psychopath’ barb shows why he is master of media game
In the wake of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s raids on the Principal Secretary of the Delhi Chief Minister on Tuesday, Arvind Kejriwal has pronounced the Prime Minister a “coward and a psychopath”. Since we do not have the advantage of...
2019 Electoral Battle# Will it be really Modi Vs Nitish?
Those going gaga over the prospects of opposition unity building up around Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar should hold their horses - it's too early to conclude that these disparate forces can form a robust alliance against the BJP-led National...
