Amitabh Bachchan’s recent visit to Gujarat and praising the state Chief Minister Narendra Modi is both surprising and dismaying. One can understand his interest in doing so, since his movie Pa is still on the board and he is putting his best to make it live and fresh at the box office. And, in order to do this, he has to go to such an extent! This sounds really disturbing to his huge fan. Perhaps, this could be a good start of a real bad end for a man of his stature, who had ...

UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi should be admired for her initiative with Union Highways Minister to direct National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for not using her photographs on billboards to be placed on National Highways. It may be recalled that even Dr Manmohan Singh, on assuming charge first time as Prime minister, had expressed desire against publishing his photos in government-advertisements.

It seems that the decision to put photos of Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh on...

Raj Thackeray is known for all wrong reasons. Sometime he objects the word ‘Bombay’ in the film Wake up Sid, and calls Karan Johar, asks the industry to give things in written, while sometime MNS activists beat sadhus for their remarks against Raj Thackeray.

The recent film Jhenda has been in news for its Thackeray angle. His goons go and slap a seasoned politician in the presence of media and everyone in the house. The Supreme Court though...

The U.S. diktat to subject the citizens of as many as 13 Muslim nations to ‘full-body’ physical inspection is a clear attempt to paint the whole Islamic world in black. It is true that Muslims throughout the world dread and hate the U.S.  But it is equally true that the U.S. is responsible for the chaotic situation prevailing in the Muslim world.  The unjust patronage to the Israeli aggression on Palestinians, the war on Iraq on the ruse of WMDs, the surge in Afghanist...