There seems to be a sort of movement among the tolerant and the broad-minded to bring home “Husainsaab”, that is, the celebrated M.F. Husain. The intellectuals who find it unbearable to hear the anguished cry of the tormented artist pining for Mumbai must realise that “Hussainsaab” can walk into his dear Mumbai any time he wants. Only he has to apologise for offending a whole community by painting their revered gods and goddesses in the grotesque and offensive postur...

It refers to a Parliamentary Panel now recommending increasing annual allocation to rupees 10 crore per Parliamentarian toward MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme thus to burden exchequer with Rs. 8000 crore annually instead of present Rs. 1600 crore. This is despite that findings of an earlier Parliamentary panel constituted on a TV sting catching Parliamentarians taking bribe to approve schemes to be funded through their MPLADs funds, endorsed views of Planning Commission that the sc...

It is unfathomable that the recurrent unrests in and around the Aqsa Mosque Compound are individual spats of violence unrelated to any larger picture. Anyone even slightly versed in this entangled conflict knows that every statement, every move in Jerusalem is laced with political overtones and is a tiny piece of a much larger canvas. So, the recent events in Jerusalem’s Old City can only be viewed as one more link of Israel’s master-plan for the city and for the Aqsa Mosque Com...