The notion that a particular city belongs to its natives and the people from other states or regions cannot work in that city is totally against the very essence of our Constitution and the concept of our national unity. Our Constitution has given the right to every citizen to work and earn living anywhere in the country. However, the recent incident has made me think on two points…

How do we define culture? Each individual has his or her own perception of culture, which may be completely different from each other. When there is no definitive perception of culture, what is the saffron brigade out to protect? There is simply no threat to the erosion of the so called culture…

According to The Federal Drug Control Service, as many as 30 million to 40 million (in a population of 142 million) in Russia may have tried drugs at least once. Annually, some 80,000 Russians die of drug-related causes. One in five crimes committed in Russia is related to drugs…

Raj Thackeray, after a fall out with Shiv Sena Chief and his uncle, Bal Thackeray, started his own political party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena in March 2006. Though the party has maintained a rightist stance like the Shiv Sena but Thackeray has claimed that his party will be more moderate, unlike the hardliner Hindutva stand of the Shiv Sena…

The winds of change are sweeping across America, at least according to Barrack Obama. The fast emerging top contender for the Democratic Party nomination for the President is touted as the one of the most likely candidate to replace the much criticized and widely ‘hated’ George W. Bush. The fact that Obama has stolen the show from Ms. Hillary Clinton, the former First Lady, backed by a formidable and experienced team, itself shows how far the he has traveled. Whoever wins the nomination, it will be a ‘first’ in both cases; Obama, is the first black and Hillary is the first woman Presidential nominee.…

France is currently in endeavour to join hands with India. It meets 90% of its electrical requirement through its 56 nuclear reactors and is most successful in deploying the aforementioned controversial and dangerous technology. Its approach to India is mutual and seemingly more beneficial to the interests of India…

Violence wrecked the financial capital of India, Mumbai, after members of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) headed by Raj Thackeray attacked migrants from north India. Raj Thackeray’s perverted logic against the celebration of non-Maharashtrian festivals in the state is absolutely outrageous. Biharis have as much a right to celebrate Chhath Puja in Mumbai as Maharashtrians have a right to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi in Patna…

A special CBI court in Patiala has awarded life sentences to Abdul Latif, Dalip Kumar and Yusuf Nepali who were accused of abetting and conspiring with the terrorists who had hijacked the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 to Kandahar in Afghanistan on December 24, 1999. However, these three are only the support staff of the main conspirators…

The citizens are hoping for elections to occur soon, but with the congress and JD(s) trying their best to postpone them, the possibility seems bleak. The BJP however, riding high on success after elections in Uttarakhand and Gujarat, hopes to continue the trend in the south by obtaining a clear cut majority…

BJP party leader, Mr L K Advani, has avowed to embark on another all India ‘Sankalp Yatra’ to rouse the party rank and file for the upcoming state assembly and Lok Sabha polls. He revived the old slogan of the BJP being the ‘party with a difference’, originally coined by Atal Bihari Vajpayee…