When Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh visited Japan last month, Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi urged India to sign the global nuclear test ban treaty, “so as to remove, he said,…

For 40 years, India did not have relations with Israel. Yet, India and Israel share so much in common and both can learn a lot from each other ! Hindus…

Living here for so many years, one comes to appreciate the greatness that is India, its boundless spirituality, its people, their hospitality, their generosity and openness. More than that, it…

Hindus not only represent the overwhelming majority of the population of India, but they can also boast of one the oldest cultures of the world: Sanskrit is often thought as…

Hindus are peace-loving people. The average Hindu that you meet in a million Indian villages, is easy-going and accepts you and your diversity, whether you are Christian, Muslim, Parsi or…

Is there such thing as ‘Hindu terrorism’, as the arrest of Sadhvi Thakur for the recent Malegaon blasts, may tend to prove? Well, I guess I was asked to write…

Once more, China has duped India, as it has done so many times in the last fifty years. Remember how Mr Jaswant Singh came back all glowing from Beijing and…

Hampi, 9th February 2001. It was once called the “Royal Avenue”, running from the great Virupaksha temple complex, to the majestic Nandi at the bottom of Matanga Hill. An avenue…

What was called in the ancient times Sanatan Dharma, which has come down to us today under the name of Hinduism, with its many branches, sects and gurus, is in…

It seems sometimes that politics and logics do not go together.If you take the present political situation in India, for instance, you find that the Indian Government’s investigative arm, the…