No longer can the Sangh Parivar and BJP ever disown its role in terrorism. A former ABVP leader and so-called \'sadhvi\', Pragya Singh Thakur, along with others including two ex-army officers have been arrested for their role in the Malegaon blasts of September 2006 as well as in the more recent Modasa blasts. Even more ominously, and it has come to light that Bhonsala Military Academy in Nagpur have been instrumental in imparting the arms training to the Bajrang Dal workers. It is also imp...

The finger of suspicion on the recent blasts in Assam has once again pointed towards the HuJI. The BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate L.K. Advani used the tragedy for crying wolf over the “infiltration” in Assam from Bangladesh. But why Mr. Advani looks the other way to the internal threat coming to the country in the shape of religious acrimony. Mr. Advani did not utter a single word on the arrest of a Sadhvi and two former army personnel on their role in the Mal...

Recent events have put us in a position where decent, law-abiding citizens may well begin to think that the figurehead behind the recent segregationist actions will not have to face the legal consequences of his actions. This is indeed a sad day for India as a whole. Individual citizens have to live in fear of personal injury and loss. For the largest democracy in the world, these are sad times indeed when opinions need to be kept bottled up and national unity is thrown out of the window un...

The ongoing trouble in Mumbai for north Indians is nothing but cheap politics being played out by Raj Thackeray in the name of Marathi pride. Raj is putting the lives of the thousands of Maharashtrians settled in other parts of India at risk with his brand of politics. He should go and read the Constitution of India, which says that any Indian can work and live wherever he likes in India. Mumbai needs north Indians as much as the north Indians need Mumbai. Then why is he targeting only nort...