2025

If assembly elections in West Bengal were not due within less than a year from now, in all probability, the state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would not have been facing political/communal missiles of the nature she is now. The nature of noise together with issue as well as socio-political atmosphere with which the same is linked cannot also be side-lined. If the amended Waqf Bill had not been passed by the Parliament and received the President

A long due read

May 3, 2025
India suffered attack by communally biased terrorists from Pakistan killing 26 tourists in the serene and peaceful hills of Pahalgam in Kashmir after ascertaining that all of them, except one, a Kashmiri Muslim pony owner who dared to snatch the gun of one of the terrorists to save the victims, were non-Muslim, including a Christian Nathaniel.
The very nature of this attack, so different from the previous terror attacks from across our western border, was so despicable that (…)

May 1, 2025
Pakistan

The barbaric Pahalgam terrorist attack of April 22nd 2025 (ironically Earth Day) appallingly targetting Hindus, is shocking and condemnable beyond words. This latest terrorist attack is an attempt by the perpetrators, to intensify the narrative of religious communal division, by holding entire societies to ransom. A terrorist outfit named The Resistance Front, reportedly claims responsibility for the attack.
The President and PM and other constitutional appointees at Centre and the States, (…)

Trump has, literally, declared a war on Harvard and other Ivy League institutions. The freezing of 2.2 billion endowments funds of Harvard and the threat to withdraw the tax-free exemptions will annihilate the autonomy of Harvard and other universities. In fact, the attack on Harvard will negate all that are positives about America.
UNIVERSITY

Post World War II there was no way colonialism could continue, which enabled Western economies to grow by plundering natural resources in other countries. Their leadership realised that free countries will exercise their right and choice to choose their trading partners and what to export and what to import. Quickly, a General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was formulated. Western economies that have been built on extraction and externalisation of costs started feeling the pinch of this (…)

The way people from Pahalgam faced the threats from terrorists and saved the tourists by taking them to their homes and taking them to hospitals needs a new dimension in Indian politics. Hindutva politics talks of revenge which is against the spirit of constitutional democracy. There should be struggle for justice not bulldozer justice as the administration has demolished the houses of some people in Pahalgam. Narendra Modi and Amit Shah need to talk of justice rather than revenge. Justice (…)

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Harold Wilson, former Prime Minister of England, once remarked that