India, Aug. 10 -- Mahatma Gandhi, a journalist par excellence, was also a highly effective speaker whose speeches perfectly complemented his written word. His 1931 speech at Chatham House, widely rate... Read More
India, Aug. 10 -- It was the night of August 8/9, 1942, some 84 years ago. Mahatma Gandhi and several of our freedom fighters had assembled in Bombay. They had just one goal in mind: Freedom! India ha... Read More
India, Aug. 10 -- On the eve of the 80th Independence Day, the scenes dotting the Indian landscape are more evocative of the pre-Independence era. The Hindutva propaganda machinery perpetually likes t... Read More
India, Aug. 3 -- Vishnu Smriti 44.9; Yajnavalkya 3.21.3; ?pastamba Dharmas?tra 2.1.2.6; Skanda Purana V.iii.14-22: Criminals and sinners will be reborn as untouchable caste people. O Hindu, At marri... Read More
India, Aug. 3 -- "The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has accepted the resignation of Shri Dharmendra Pradhan from the Union Council of Ministers, with immediate effect, under cl... Read More
India, Aug. 3 -- The Revolution has begun... On the afternoon of July 25, the Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan finally submitted his resignation. It was a key demand of the Cockroach Janata Party... Read More
India, Aug. 3 -- No amount of reforms or legislation will bring in equity or a level playing field in medical education in India until the blatantly anti-autonomy and anti-poor National Eligibility cu... Read More
India, Aug. 3 -- It is not often that India's men in cassocks step out of its cathedrals and chapels and into the political square. Rarer still is the sight of them at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar Road ... Read More
India, Aug. 3 -- There is an old saying that courts pronounce judgments, but history delivers the final verdict. Every now and then, however, history requires the assistance of a court to set the reco... Read More
India, Aug. 3 -- Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as Education Minister. On the surface, it was student protests and national outrage over the brutality unleashed on young protestors in Delhi that forced h... Read More