It is a blessing in disguise that political opportunism among now-distanced Kalyan Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav has been exposed, which will badly harm both the former short-lived friends. Kalyan Singh as usual has once again become politically unemployed with no sign of any one willing to provide him with a political shelter. Samajwadi Party is utterly confused to gather votes through conflicting approaches. It welcomed Kalyan Singh to get Lodh votes but when Muslims went away from the pa...

The hooliganism indulged in by four Raj Thackeray’s MNS legislators assaulting the Samajwadi party member Mr. Abu Asim Azmi for taking oath in the first official language Hindi is highly condemnable. A legislator can take the oath in Hindi or English or in the official language of the state.

Mr. Azmi (who does not know Marathi and has said that he would learn it) has protected the rule of law, and made it clear that the Constitution of India is important. We must accept t...

The thrashing of Azmi and the hooliganism by the MNS members over his oath in Hindi was indeed one of the worst acts that could have been committed and for such a stupid reason. Hindi is the first official language of the country and there was nothing wrong in taking the oath in Hindi. The MNS members have proved that they are one of the most awful sons of the motherland and they must be punished in a manner that members of any other political parties should shudder before they attempt any ...

When a Christian or a Jew, commits a crime, the media refers to him as a criminal and questions his act. When, however, the criminal happens to be a Muslim, the media refers to him as a Muslim and questions his faith. So, as soon as it became clear that the suspect in the tragic incident at Fort Hood is a Muslim, every US Muslim organisation of note put out a press release condemning the brutal attack although the perpetrators of such incidents belong to all faith groups. This is because si...