Come the 15th of August, India will observe her sixty sixth anniversary of political independence. Within some three years of that event…
Come to think of it, imagine how many great souls have been done in by their eventual failure to balance within them…
After his triumph in Karnataka where he thundered in four electoral constituencies, losing all four to the Congress whom it seems his…
Epigraph I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And…
The Indian rightwing is in a tizzy of anticipation. The savior of the haves is here. His name is Narendra Modi. Unlike…
It has been a fairly considered tactic on behalf of the main political opposition to the Congress to smirk and snigger generally…
[Note: Mohan Bhagwat is the chief of the Hindutva rightwing RSS] It is such a relief finally to know why and where rapes take…
It is a great mystery to me why wolves should have been saddled with the ill repute of being sexual predators. My…
Turning away from the hurtful perfidies of the human realm, the ousted King Lear of Shakespeare’s Play was to famously articulate imprecations against the…
Rightwing Hindutva social forces may well have collaborated with the colonising Britishers during the highnoon of India’s Congress-led freedom movement, their standard …
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