Everybody but (the answer is at the end of this article, don’t cheat, wait for the last line!) wants Sonia Gandhi to become Prime Minister of India.It is true there…
We can understand that India wants to de-link child labour from trade issues. Because, although the West is right in pointing out that there is indeed a terrible exploitation of…
Thousands of oil lamps are scintillating in the starry night of Dharamsala, in the Indian Himalayas at a height of 1800 metres. It is here that the Tibetan community in…
It is fashionable nowadays to say that Buddhism heralded “the Renaissance of India”. In fact, Buddhism is often used as a weapon against Hinduism – whether by India specialists abroad…
The caste system has been the most vilified aspect of Hindu society at the hands of Western scholars. And this has greatly contributed to India’s lack of national pride, as…
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described her as “one of the outstanding leaders of our sub-continent, who always looked for reconciliation between India and Pakistan.” Most magazines are doing cover stories…
My article, « Being an Indian abroad », published by Rediff last month, triggered such a massive reaction, more than three hundred and fifty emails, that I felt it was…
We all admire William Dalrymple for his writing style, knowledge of India and for making Delhi his home.Yet his fascination for Aurangzeb,which already made him write the the Last Mughal…
In the matter of the twelve men arrested aboard the Northwest flight in Amsterdam, once again the Indian Media has shown that it has no independence of thought and individuality,…
In Tamil Nadu, there are 10 to 15 hours power cut a day, workers stand idle, small units are closing down daily by the dozens and business is slow.The rupee…
