The original Himalayan Blunder was with regard to the Gilgit Agency and the Wazarat, which many don’t even remember. Gilgit-Baltistan, as we know it today comprised Gilgit Agency and Gilgit…
In an unprecedented show of solidarity, the entire Congress top brass has come out in support & defence of P Chidambaram who is in CBI custody for corruption & money…
June 20, 1949. It was the day when the government of independent Bharat chose to exile the Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir, who had acceded his state to Bharat on…
On 25 June 1975, Bharat saw the extension of the external emergency, imposed since 1965 into the domestic affairs of Bharat. More than 25 years have passed; yet, the public…
“I’m very happy 2014 happened, it taught the Congress a hell of a lot”, Rahul Gandhi said in an interview published in The Indian Express. I pity Rahul Gandhi who…
Recently, the veteran Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist and Congress insider Sam Pitroda was caught making an extremely callous comment when questioned about his party’s instigation of the 1984 Sikh pogrom. Responding…
Exactly 30 years ago, in a factory in Bhopal, water entered the tank E-610, which held 42 tons of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC). MIC is a highly toxic compound with a…
A book that, understandably, did not get much attention from our mainstream English language press is ‘The Myth of Hindu Terror: Insider Account of Ministry of Home Affairs’ by Shri…
These days, the term MCOCA is bandied about by several internet/media “pundits” who probably are not even aware of the complete form of this term. MCOCA stands for Maharashtra Control…
A Prologue Having viewed five movies over the last two decades, which includes The Tashkent Files (TTF) recently, does not qualify me to be an expert movie critic. When eminent…