March 2015

By Soumitra Bose/Mukesh Kumar Sinha At a time when there is a frantic effort on the part of ‘fully cautious’ India to keep ‘congenital, inveterate anti-India’ Pakistan in “complete check so that they do not ‘destabilise’,…

In what is being currently widely termed as no-holds-barred saga of ‘boldest ever, most determined, sure-shot-issue-clincher-in-India’s-terms’ Indian Prime Minister NarendraBhai DamodarDas Modi, for the first time in India, he, since the…

By Soumitra Bose/Mukesh Kumar Sinha PROLOGUE : In a dramatic turn of ideological events in India today, albeit still unknown, unseen, unnoticed at the time of writing this, Indian Politik is 1. Unwittingly, unknowingly, gullibly, may be…

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Today, we remember Kanshiramji, the founder of Bahujan Samaj Party and a person who was responsible for seachange in the political perspective of the Dalits all over the country. At the time when Bahujan movement…

By Mukesh Kumar Sinha The premier media institution, Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), is in turmoil. Its director general got a shock as at the last minute the ministry of information and broadcasting asked him to…

By Soumitra Bose/Mukesh Kumar Sinha The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an “aggressive” agencyof the U.S. . Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.…

By M.Y.Siddiqui Several combined initiatives of the Union Government and States in close coordination with the judiciary at the apex and High Courts to reduce delays and expedite disposal of cases have failed to deliver justice to the…

By M.Y.Siddiqui The ongoing investigation in the recently surfaced corporate espionage matter in the economic Ministries of the Union Government as also in the now infamous Neera Radio tapes cases…

Are Indian Americans primed to become the next political kingmakers? By ADAM B. LERNER November wasn’t kind to the political power of Indian-Americans. In the hundreds of congressional and gubernatorial races across the country, only…

By Shivaji Sarkar A number of farmers in UP and neighbouring areas committed suicide owing to untimely rains damaging their crops. It is an irony. The budget has given some sops to agriculture. It has announced financial support to…

By Soumitra Bose/Mukesh Kumar “Baba” Sinha The Hon’able Cat(e) is Finally Out of The (Surreptitiously, Meticulously Concealed, Personally guarded {deliberately whisked away from 24-hour hawklike SPG eyes to avoid its “invaluable”,…

By: Rakesh Manchanda Is this the original Taj Mahal ? Bibi-ka-Maqbara was built in 1660 in the memory of his 1st. wife, Dilras Banu Begam. Aurangzeb copy cat `passion` had resulted in a poor copy of a Taj.…

By Soumitra Bose/Mukesh Kumar Sinha Gabbar (read Sandeep Dikshit for Gabbar)  : Hmmmm.... Kitane aadmi hai? Kejriwal: Sandeep... sirf aur sirf 6 aadmi hai. Prashan Bhushan, Ooska Baap Shanti Bhushan, Yogendra Yadavb, Alka Lamba,…

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat A few days ago our finance minister and the legal brain of the current government Mr Arun Jaitley spoke in a conference and said that ‘you can not ban anything in the current age of information’. ‘How can any…

Great happening in India : Barack Obama is the first serving US President to visit India twice. He is the Ist US President  to be the Chief Guest at our Annual Republic Day Parade. On his last public appearance in India, US President Barack…

By Indrajit Sen There is currently a lot of discussion on this subject of “smart city”. A lot of expectations and curiosity are building up to see what this is all about. Hence it is only right that some basic issues need to be…

By Soumitra Bose/Mukesh Kumar Sinha  Tamil Maanila Hindu in Tamilnadu Prant (Mamallap, Pondicherry, Madras {now, Chennai}, Thiruchirapalli, Kanniyakumari, Madurai, Rameshwaram) : It is mentioned in the Bhagavat Geeta that Bhakti is born…

By Shivaji Sarkar It is unusual to have a Railway Budget without its politics, populism, regional angularities. Railway minister Suresh Prabhu seems to have made an effort at professionalizing the country’s biggest commercial lifeline…

By Meghnad Desai (P.S. : MeghnadBhai : When ‘Out of My Mind’, U say ‘Now Delliver’. When ‘in (R U Ever?) Ur Mind’, What Do U say : Now Deliver, U Have Five Full Years to Deliver) As a new Roman emperor went about on his triumphant…

By Soumitra Bos$/Muke$H Kumar $Inha Aye Hamare Madam ZohraJabeen, Aapko Maalum Nahi, Aap Abhi Tak Hain Netree aur Hum Sewadar, Aap-pe Qurban Hamari Jaan, Aye Hamare Madam ZohraJabeen; Ye (Hame Leadership Dene Ka)…

By Siddhartha Shankar Mishra  The kind of fractious political environment that our disputatious leadership has created over the years in itself has become the biggest deterrent for any educated and equitably honest youth to take…

By Soumitra Bose/Mukesh Kumar Sinha PRELUDE : Big Data is a major topic of discussion across a number of fields, including management and marketing, scientific research, national security, government transparency and open data. Both…

With possibilities soaring on a bill on reconversion of religions in the ongoing Parliament session, tongues have again begun wagging like in last Parliament session about reconversion/anti-conversion  bill facilitating homecoming in…

Union Budget 2015-16. Very harsh. Very inflationary. Indians will have a tough time in coming days. (After that, no comments on the Narendra Modi Government, despite such anti-masses Union Budget, adhering to wait-n-see,…

Even availing service by way of free telephone at airport or hospital would lead to payment of the tax ! By Shivaji Sarkar It is a harsh budget. It has some signature of Narendra Modi in terms of measures for youth, senior…