The coming days are going to be gruesome to the aam admi, owing to the drought like situation looming large across the nation.  There is a misconception that monsoons alone have played havoc with agriculture in our country.  Tens of thousands of farmers have committed suicide during the past 15 years not because of faulty monsoons but due to the neo-liberal policies pursued by successive governments.  The procurement policy by offering Minimu...

The BJP-RSS combine cannot tolerate anything which goes against their biased anti-Muslim ideology even if it is a reality. It was Lala Lajpat Rai, way back in 1924, who advocated for a separate Muslim state for the first time, when Jinnah was not even on the scene.  Apart from the account of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the noted lawyer H.M. Seervai, in his book, Partition-Legend and Reality, handsomely recorded all the facts and sequences leading to the Partit...

Sudden erupted love for Jinnah first in Advani, and now in Jaswant Singh after six long decades of the country’s partition and independence seems to be a game-plan of BJP to keep the party in news even though through controversies! Media fuels the controversies to BJP’s designed tune. What Advani or Jaswant Singh said about Jinnah may not be far away from facts. It would have been better if media could highlight observations of BJP leaders like Jaswant Singh (and earli...

In “CBI Records only six statements in Babri Case” (Radiance Viewsweekly, July 12-18, 2009, p. 30) an FIR list of top fascist leaders directly or indirectly involved in demolition of Babri Masjid is given. Surprisingly, till date, no one included the cryptic support of PV Narasimha Rao in this serious case. On issue The Felony, a cartoon was displayed on first page of The Deccan Chronicle where it showed incognitos PV and Advani arm wrestling on table and simultane...