The recent Tehelka expose certainly demands the immediate dismissal of the state government of Gujarat under Narendra Modi and imposition of President’s rule based on the incriminating evidence recorded from none other than the perpetrators of the ghastly crimes during the 2002 pogrom. Tehelka journalist Ashish Khetan deserves applauds for this daring and courageous effort. Several independent reports, including those of HRW and AI, had concluded that the responsibil...

People deserve the rule they need. As the King so are the subject is an old worn out adage. It is now as the people so are the rulers. What can we expect other than a military rule in a country like Pakistan where capable political leaders are absent, militancy is at its peak, judiciary at loggerheads and defiant with the legislature, linguistic, ethnic and religious bigotry ruling high, secular and democratic climate non-existent?

One feels that he had no option...

A common man is dismayed at the way ethics in politics have nose-dived in the country in the name of democracy.  H.D. Deve Gowda, who was once India’s Prime Minister, heads a splinter group in Karnataka and claims his party to be ‘secular’.  It is an open secret how shamelessly he had made his son H.D. Kumaraswamy Chief Minister with the support of BJP, a party wedded to divisive policy. When the time of handing over the power to the BJP came, he announ...

I firmly believe that senility has totally seized Khushwant Singh’s heart and mind. He says that he is still well at 94 despite taking alcohol for long, but if his latest column is any indication, alcohol has definitely played an important part in his senility. With the age advancing, people tend to become morally upright and advise others to be the same. Khushwant Singh does just the opposite. This is simply because he is the most vocal product, at least in India, of what I call econ...