Pantaloon Femina Miss India (PFMI) 2010, concluded in Mumbai on April 30. While the media glorifies the contest with headlines “Hat off to B’lore, Pune Girls – the winners”, my head, as an Indian, hanged in shame looking at contestants, dressed in bikinis. We Indians too are aping the West without minding what morally virulent effects it will yield to our young generation. It may cause an increase in cases of abduction, gang rape, abortion, adultery, prostitution, le...

History bears testimony to the fact that brave Afghans are invincible. In 1839, colonial super power, the British invaded Afghanistan and puppet Shah Shuja was placed on the throne of Kabul. The Afghans refused to be ruled by any foreign power. A full-scale rebellion against British invaders broke out and two most senior British envoys were murdered. On the disastrous retreat that followed 18000 East India Company troops were slaughtered by Afghan fighters. It was the greatest humiliation e...

The decision of Congress-led Rajasthan government to allot costly 5600 square meters plot to construct a memorial for former Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat may be a noble example of politics of cordiality, but it is certainly an anti-public step in wrong direction setting an unhealthy trend for others. It may be recalled that spot-decision of cremation of former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma at a ground other than normal cremation ground and later efforts to convert the gro...