As India and Pakistan trudge towards the 70th anniversary of their creation, the comparisons are beginning to flow on how well (or badly) the two countries have done vis-a-vis each …
The front page of the Karnataka’s first English daily, Deccan Herald, 60 years ago, on 26 January 1950, the day India became a republic with the adoption of a Constitution. …
As if the circus so far hasn’t been hilarious enough, the BJP president Rajnath Singh has issued a gag order threatening action against anybody in his party who “favours” Mohammed …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I met the Ace Political Expert (APE) after a long time. He was taking his morning walk in Cheluvamba Park. When we settled on one of the …
A few weeks ago, expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh slammed finance minister Pranab Mukherjee for being miserly with the income tax exemption limits. “The relief is so meagre it won’t …
B.S. NAGARAJ writes from New Delhi: That Gujarat chief minister Narendra Damodardas Modi should have moved so swiftly to ban Jaswant Singh‘s book on Jinnah is not surprising. After all, …
Jyotirmaya Sharma, a professor in political studies at the University of Hyderabad and author of “Terrifying Vision”: M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS and India, in Mail Today: “Jaswant Singh‘s expulsion means …
