A biography of British statesman Sir Stafford Cripps has just been brought out by Penguin Books. Sir Stafford Cripps was one of the...

Throughout its long history, the concept of dharma, or the universal Law, gave such a freedom to Indians that all kind of branches and...

Friends, This are extracts of an article I wrote three years ago for my Ferengi’s column of the Indian Express. Was it prophetic ? It...

In the wake of the recent events in Gujarat, we have to look again at what Belgian scholar Koenraad Elst, has called “negationism”, which...

When we were young, some of our heroes were Mao-tse Tung, Che Guevara, or even sometimes Pol-Pot. Of course, in time, we learnt about the...

Last Saturday, a few of us were conferred the Natchiketa prize of journalism by the PM, in the presence of Shri L.K. Advani. Because of...

At a time when we see that politicians, journalists, philosophers, spiritualists even, utter only the politically correct. At a time when...

Westerners have often a deep suspicion of ‘Gurus’ and are wary of anything which has a “Hindu” flavor. It is true that some of the gurus...

Today, if a Hindu wants to undertake a pilgrimage to one of the most ancient shrines in the history of Hinduism, Amarnath, he must do it...

Synopsis A country needs a people who are proud of their own culture and civilisation to move forward. That is what true nationalism –...