History should never be taken at face value. Because, there is nothing called absolute truth in history. Contrary to popular belief, history is not an account of our glorious past. Nor is it a glorious account of our past. History is, in fact, a...

With the attack on Mir Kazim Ali Khan in Melbourne on Monday (reported in the Delhi edition of The Hindustan Times on June 24, 2009), the number of attacks in the ongoing series of attacks on Indians in Australia has gone up to 16. The Australian...

In the mother of all encounters in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a 500-strong police force managed to shoot down dacoit Ganshyam Nishad in Chitrakoot district a couple of hours back after 52 hours of gun battle. It was a joint operation by...

A powerful bomb went off outside the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar sending up a thick blanket of smoke. Peshawar is the capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), in Pakistan. The hotel is on the way to the highway of NWFP...

Did Air France flight AF-447 that took off from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil for Paris hit the Bermuda Triangle? If not, how do we explain the mysterious disappearance of the flight from the radar? According to reports, the flight AF-447 took off with 228...

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead. May his soul rest in peace though he never let anybody live in peace when he was alive. But, I go by the maxim bear no grudge against a dead man. Prabhakaran’s struggle...

The Twenty20 cricket tournament of the Indian Premier League has gone out of India. Australia has refused to play Davis Cup in India. Will it be the same story in 2010 when Commonwealth Games are to be held in India? A country which is facing...

It took a cringing defeat for the National Democratic Alliance to bring the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate, Lal Krishna Advani, down to earth. The people’s verdict has dwarfed the man who projected himself as a determined...

The suspense is over. Ajmal Kasab is a lier. Accepting the evidence submitted by the prosecution, based on reports of the jail superintendent Swati Sathe and doctors, the special sessions court Judge M.L. Tahiliyani declared that Ajmal Kasab is not...

(In a lighter vein) The Congress party has a sleeping giant in its party symbol. The party’s election symbol “The Hand” is by far the most powerful party symbol in the world. But, the party does not seem to have put it to creative use. Think...