22nd July 08, was a day the nation would remember for a long time to come. It kept the people on the tenterhooks throughout as the Lok Sabha met to decide the fate of the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government. The special session commenced with an erudite address by Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram. And just when the business of the House appeared to be picking up, the BJP dropped a bribery bombshell. Ashok Argal, an MP of the party, rushed to the well of the House. He dramatically took out...

The expulsion of Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee from the Communist Party of India-Marxist for defying the party diktat to step down ends on a bitter note the political journey of a man who was the Marxist outfit's most articulate face with liberal views in Parliament for nearly four decades. It is surprising though to see the disciplinary action against someone, who was elected to the Lok Sabha 10 times on the party ticket beginning in 1971 and led the CPI-M parliamentary party f...

Thank you very much for publishing my letter in Radiance of`20 - 26 July....

Unfortunately, someone has tried to correct/edit the text which has, as I recall whenever this is attempted, resulted in error rather than correction, rendering the first few lines difficult to understand.

The letter has been pushed into space which is insufficient for it and paragraphing has been omitted for this reason...rendering the text into a massive, ugly to look at and tedious to rea...

The parliament has become the abode for allegations and counter allegations. As both opposition and ruling parties are at fault no thorough enquiry .is possible .The third degree and narco tests etc are mainly for innocent Muslim youths. The killers and murderers of democracy are  exonerated and set free. If such is the rule of law, the state may disintegrate.

Bertrand Russel said, ‘Every big country wanted to swallow the small one, but the balance of terror prevents them.’ War is the greatest crime of all times and yet there is no aggressor who does not colour his crime with the pretext of justice. Let the world decide who is culprit: America, Britain, Russia or Taliban?

The article of Yvonne Ridley on War on Iran (Radiance 27July-2August 2008) gives a brilliant analysis as what would happen to Israel in case the USA withdrew its unqualified support. Surely the Zionist nation would crumble and go to oblivion if this happens. But the assumption that the United States would ditch Israelis is most unlikely. It is a fact that the USA has ditched many persons and nations on ‘use and throe’ basis. But the case of Israel is different. No US Administrat...