Political developments are taking place at an extremely fast pace within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While on one hand Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi continues to address gatherings in different cities fueling speculation of his Prime ministerial ambitions, on the other supporters of veteran politician LK Advani are making feeble attempts at pushing his case one last time. Read more

Parliament continues to be stalled by the principal opposition organization, the Bharatiya Janata Party and it appears that the entire Monsoon session is going to be washed out given the Saffron Brigade’s refusal to give up its demand for the resignation of the Prime Minister. Read more

An unnecessary debate to determine who was the greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi has been initiated and in its final sequel an opinion war is sought to be created to figure out whether Jawaharlal Nehru was greater than Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar (the ultimate winner) or vice versa. If the debate is for TRP ratings, than it lacks seriousness as someone is bound to come out with a debate shortly as to who was the greatest Indian before the Mahatma. Read more

The recent revolt by a section of the BJP in Rajasthan to express solidarity with former chief minister Vasundhara Raje is something very similar to what has been going on in the Congress for the last several years. Read more

All is certainly not well in the Congress and a Cabinet Minister had in a letter stated that the party was in the ICU and the government was in coma. Read more

There has been so much written about the Army and other wings of our armed forces during the past few months. Some of the stories suggest that if there was anything wrong in this country it was only in our defence forces. As if everything is right elsewhere.
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It was a very sad day in my life when I heard about J Dey being shot dead by some unknown persons in Mumbai last Saturday. I did not know J Dey who worked for the HT in Mumbai for some time and was at present the crime reporting boss of the MiD-DAY. Read more

Last week two former colleagues suddenly passed away. Vidya Rattan, a top crime reporter of the seventies who worked for the now extinct Patriot newspaper and Sharad Saxena, ace photographer associated with the Times of India and India Today died of cardiac arrest. Read more

The Supreme Court’s advise to the media to show more restraint in covering incidents such as the Arushi Talwar murder case appears to be more of a warning rather than a gag order as several TV channels are portraying. Read more

I was not surprised but appalled by the statements made by the Law Minister M.Veerappa Moily and Union Home Secretary GK Pillai related to the death sentence awarded to Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab. It is to my mind not the duty of the Law ministry or the Home Ministry to give a projected date of hanging of the accused when the matter has to be decided by the judiciary. Read more