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The Indian media, quite regrettably, doesn’t devote any time to China. Fortunately, the Western media is obsessed by it. And, in the past few days, impish Americans and European reporters are having quite a bit of fun — at China’s expense.
The Mughal emperors, like many of the crowned heads of the late-medieval world, loved grand titles. It was customary for a Jehangir or a Shah Jehan to be ushered into court with a flunkey announcing the arrival of the “King of Kings”, “Light of the universe”, etc.
Coalgate is a symptom, the disease is electoral system
Written by Kanchan GuptaUnless election campaign expenditure is drastically curbed political corruption cannot be checked. We have to look at alternative electoral systems, for instance the ‘List System'
In an introduction to the dramatised version An Englishman Abroad on the travails of the diplomat-turned-spy Guy Burgess, living in exile in a grey and drab Moscow, Alan Bennett made an interesting observation. Had Burgess, he argued, lived till a ripe old age, he would have been welcomed back and turned into a celebrity in England. “At 90 in England, you just have to be able to eat a boiled egg and they think you deserve the Nobel Prize.”
Hanging out with NaMo late into Friday night
Written by Kanchan GuptaMillions jammed the online highway to Narendra Modi's Google+ Hangout hosted by Ajay Devgn. Nobody wanted to miss this show and none was disappointed as a real life Singham spoke to Youngistan
At a time when the governance of the country is in total disarray, foreign policy is the least of India’s national preoccupations. Yet, thanks to a blundering Government that has lost its balance, India has committed one astonishing blunder and may be on the verge of another diplomatic boo-boo.
The communal strife in Assam and retaliatory violence in Mumbai, followed by alarm among migrants from North-East, shows the state, under UPA rule, has abdicated responsibility
The official narrative describes them as ‘rumour-mongers’, ‘mischief-makers’ and ‘anti-nationals’. Call them these and much more but there is a hard truth that India must confront: that these vile creatures are boisterously celebrating the spectacular success of their mission.
The real instigators trying to rekindle the flames of Khalistani terror can be found largely in Canada, more specifically in British Columbia. The regime there continues to remain as indulgent as before
If I was a Bodo in Assam and listening to last Wednesday’s adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha, would I be mistaken in coming to the grim conclusion that the political establishment either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care about what happens in Kokrajhar? Would I be wrong in also concluding that the niceties of democratic politics are unlikely to save the community from complete marginalisation, even in the so-called Bodo ‘homeland’?
