Anti-Police Bias: The heavens would fall in judicial wrath for contempt of court! The right to make insult...

World acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie, who hails from Mumbai and holds an NRI passport, was first barred by the Congress-led UPA Government and Congress Government in Rajasthan from visiting India to participate in the Jaipur Literary Festival (JLF). Then, to ensure ...

‘Vade vade jayate tattvabodhah’ (Every debate brings forth understanding of principles), says a Sanskrit subhashita. In their long history, Hindus as a people have b...

One hundred and fifty persons - men, women and children - have died of hunger in nineteen districts of Bihar in the past five years to 2011. The dead are mainly from the dalit community. Some had the ‘red ration card’ with entitlement of 25 kg of rice at ...

Just released data by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute says that a quarter of the world’s hungry, 230 million to be precise, are in India, going to sleep each day on an empty stomach. These stomachs are not even half-filled!&nbs...

The following is a 2011 article by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya for the Italian journal Eurasia about the manipulation of national constitutions as a neo-colonial means of modern empire-building. The article presents an important overvie...

Since November, the United States and its allies, Britain and France in particular, have been mounting political and military pressure on Iran. Not a day goes by without a leader of these Western...

Let’s start with red lines. Here it is, Washington’s ultimate red line, straight from the lion’s mouth. Only last week Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said ...

The United States reportedly sent a letter to Iran via multiple intermediaries last week warning Tehran that any attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz constituted a red line for Washington. The same week, a chemist associated with Iran’s nuclear program was k...

 Scarcely a word is heard about foreign affairs amid US election talk, despite the many fires around the world that the US military is either stoking or trying to douse -- depending on your point of view. Other than Republican contender Ron Paul -- not a serious...