Bollywood’s bleeding hearts must wake up and smell the coffee
It is hard to escape the conclusion - despite what seems, on the surface, to be total capitulation by the Italian government - that the resolution is the product of a backroom deal.
Given the precarious nature of its majority, the Congress had no reason to court three kinds of trouble simultaneously. But it has managed to do just that.
The hotheadedness of Tamil chauvinists has done the utmost damage to the cause of Sri Lankan Tamils over the decades. The worms that are even now crawling out of the woodworks of linguistic chauvinism should be swept aside.
There’s no such thing as the perfect economic model, just like there’s no such thing as the perfect political theory or perfect formula of governance.
Now anyone who follows Tamil Nadu and Karunanidhi's politics will know the DMK chief is just indulging in posturing.
The Left's so-called ‘Idea of India’ includes no loyalty to India per se, but only some vague slogans about ‘inclusiveness’.
Modi's critics' unblinking focus on the 2002 riots all these years has compelled him to work harder than he otherwise might have to project himself as an agent of development. Perhaps they should never lose that focus.
Over the course of her political career, Sonia has run the gauntlet through the tyranny of caricatures. She was white, Catholic, and a woman and thus seen as a subversive force. She has been accused of being from a fascist family and having Mafia connections.
Rahul Gandhi wants his party leaders to play that old childhood game: 20 Questions. Except in this version, the answers must be submitted in the form of detailed reports a la old fashioned bureaucrats.
The Italian government continues to brazen it out because it has made the political calculation that the Indian government, for all the sound and fury from New Delhi, will not push back beyond a point.
Equations within the party are changing after the chief minister’s son Gaurav joined Congress.
A grateful Gaurav Gogoi said that his father Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi imparted many valuable lessons to him to remember in the field of politics.
Firstpost caught up with former convict Reny George, who now runs a home for children of prisoners and speaks to convicts to inspire them to a better life outside jail.
There is a huge disconnect between what Rahul Gandhi says and what he ends up doing.
In his latest missive, the only saving grace is that Justice Katju is not pontificating on subjects and issues removed from his responsibility as chairman of the Press Council.
After fighting it hard for years, the chief minister has succumbed to the mining lobby.
“The System” in prisons ensures prisoners are safer than the rest of us.
Unless the Indian government responds with vigour, even risking a diplomatic standoff with Italy, the suspicion that this is part of a "political deal" to sabotage two trials - of the Italian marines in India and of the AgustaWestland deal in Italy - will be validated.
By stating in the same breath that YSRC MPs could join the government and seek ministerial berths in 2014, Vijayalakshmi has exposed her political naivete.
Modi is on a roll within the BJP, but he still faces one last obstacle in the form of LK Advani, whose recent pronouncements suggest that he is playing a Chanakyan game.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid did well in limiting himself to just breaking bread with the Pakistani PM.
The Bitti Mohanty case also lays bare the hollowness of the entire document verification process when everything from passports to voter IDs - and even Aadhar cards - can be faked.
The Pakistan Prime Minister's visit to the Ajmer dargah today is being cynically exploited in the battle among the spiritual head and the administrators of the shrine.
The Other Backward Classes in the state are dissatisfied with the BJP government and they have made it evident by a massive show of strength on the streets.
The Indian professors who got Modi's address cancelled specialise in scholarship criticising colonialism, but they they are serving similar American policies on neo-colonial interventions in India.
The BJP has to decide if it wants to gamble with Modi with the sole aim of becoming the single largest party in a divided parliament or to play safe with an NDA-plus government that relies on smaller - and unreliable - regional parties.
Why celebrate women's day to glorify your own contributions to the betterment of women? This is nothing but patriarchy in disguise.
"Maun" Mohan Singh went after Modi with civilized ferocity, and by underlining their very different styles of aggressiveness.
Has the UPA been much better than NDA in tackling terror? The answer: UPA has been luckier, not better