It was a murder announced well in advance. An important suspect, Shafiur Rahman Farabi, now in custody, told his Facebook friends a year ago — on February 9, 2014 —

The Government at the Centre has been slowly but steadily attempting to sink its venemous fangs into the unwary public. Imposing Hindi through the TV, Sanskrit replacing German in Kendriya

PK is indeed a bold and a brave come back by the Rajkumar Hirani – Aamir Khan – Vidhu Vinod Chopra combo that gave us the 2009 hit ‘3 Idiots’.

Our generals say India’s spy agency RAW is up to its nasty tricks again. No evidence provided but, okay, we’ll buy the story for now. There are two good reasons.

“There are forces making for happiness, and forces making for misery. We do not know which will prevail, but to act wisely we must be aware of both.” Bertrand Russell

Elephant Beach in the Andamans was not where I thought I would have to justify my life choices. Yet there I was, feet dipped in clear water, staring into the

An idealist, but never dogmatic Comrade Govind Pansare died late on Friday. While he was well-known in and around Kolhapur, he remains less known in the rest of Maharashtra and

 Senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and rationalist Govind Pansare, 82, died in Mumbai on February 20, five days after he was shot at in Kolhapur. He and his

The dastardly assassination of Comrade Govind Pansare, the veteran 81-year old former CPI state secretary, national council member, trade union leader, eminent lawyer and prominent Marxist intellectual and writer –

In October 2009, I had written an investigative report on the Sanatan Sanstha for Tehelka, a week after a low intensity bomb went off in Goa, for which members of

A Hindu organization  the Sanatan Sanstha, is once again in the public eye after a low intensity blast that took place in Goa’s Madhgaon district on October 16, the eve

“There was a scientific study that showed vaccines cause autism.” “Actually, the researcher in that study lost his medical license, and overwhelming research since then has shown no link between

Yoga is to North America what McDonalds is to India: both are foreign implants gone native. The urban and suburban landscape of the United States is dotted with neighbourhood health

Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind. – Albert Einstein   The culture vultures belonging to the Sangh Parivar have long been preying on every kind