The political stature of Raj Thackeray: Raj Thackeray’s political stature is diminishing day by day following his expulsion from the Bal Thackeray’s stable in Maharashtra politics. Even in the last elections for the Mumbai Corporation, Raj’s...

Terrorists from Islamic countries are generally referred to the hostile Western Media in the post 9/11 period but terrorists from Christian countries are not referred to as Christian terrorists. Why this discrimination? No religion teaches hatred and...

It is high time that more than a hundred and fifty thousand Tibetans in exile in India leave the country which gave them and their temporal leader The Dalai Lama shelter fifty years ago and in turn incurred wrath of the powerful neighbour China. The...

It was the movie “Lion of the Desert” on the life of legendary Libyan freedom fighter Omar Mukhtar which ignited the simmering fire in the hearts of Kashmiris in 1989. The mighty Communist USSR was too disintegrating into several nations. The...

A lesser death toll in 2006 does not indicate waning of the Naxalite movement in India but the mounting disparities between the rich and poor only feeds the growing cadres.

Land reforms and a failed peace in Andhra Pradesh, growing industrial needs...

Sometimes described as a “virtual” nuclear weapons state, Japan has one of the world’s largest and most advanced civilian nuclear programs. It could likely have nuclear weapons within a few months of deciding it wanted them. The only nation ever...

Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Turkey, the most liberal Muslim country amidst deep divide, festering within Turkish society since the foundation of the modern state by its revered founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923. Should Turkey face eastward, toward...

Islam is not responsible for human rights violation in undemocratic states, it’s the men, says Shireen Ebadi, the Nobel peace prize holder (2003) and an Iranian advocate. She preferred to overlook the fact that most of the Islamic countries do not...

As an estimated crowd of a little less than a million of Venezuelans packed a major highway on Saturday in Caracas (Venezuela), a city of 5 millions, in one of the largest demonstrations in years, waving flags as presidential candidate Manuel Rosales...

Sectarian tensions are running high in Beirut in the wake of assassination of Lebanon’s Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, hailing from the minority Christian community. Gemayel, 34, was the son of Amin Gemayel, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon. He...