The recent Supreme Court order to probe into the alleged role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his cabinet colleagues and senior police officers for aiding and abetting the infamous Goldberg Society massacre in 2002 Gujarat genocide has come as a major blow to the BJP camp ahead of the polls. Mr. Modi has downplayed this order by uttering his usual rhetoric that it is the ‘conspiracy’ of the Congress party against him. Tehelka weekly had carried out a sting oper...

Maqbool Ahmed Siraj’s article, “Catastrophe of Character” made a great reading. It was a real eye-opener for us Indians. And as Mahatma Gandhi said, “Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.” I would just like to add a point that the same should be applicable in academic institutions. Teachers shouldn’t be accepting gifts from their students as this is also a bribe and inadvertently leads to...

BJP and CPM have desired that the country’s Prime Minister should be only from Lok Sabha, evidently with an eye on Congress’s Prime Ministerial candidate Dr Manmohan Singh who is member of Rajya Sabha.

Keeping in view the present self-centred politics, it will be most appropriate that Prime Minister/Chief Ministers and other ministers should be non-members having contested no election in past say one year. This will make MPs and MLAs king-makers to serve as real watc...

The swine flu is sending shivers down the spines of all nations in the world, including the most advanced ones like the U.S., Russia and China. Though the authorities are taking preventive measures by checking the arriving passengers at the airports, what happens if the pandemic spreads to the gullible masses is anybody’s guess. Healthcare has become a prerogative for the rich, as years of privatisation in the health sector has reduced the public health centres in the country to a mes...