“I have to be cruel to be kind”, said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as he presented the Budget for the current fiscal year (2012-13). These words from Shakespeare’s ‘Prince of Denmark’ rightly sums up his state of mind vis-à-vis Mamata Bannerjee’s outright opposition to any […]
Sometime back a gory image of roasted bodies lying strewn across a field went viral across Face book and other social networking sites. The caption described it as the handiwork of Muslim fundamentalists in Nigeria who had planted land mines in […]
A foreign policy is to a country what social etiquette is to a civilized person. You can survive without it no doubt, but devoid of any social relations or contacts. A nation could have existed fine without a foreign policy […]
India has long been befuddled by trying questions on it’s sketchy foreign policy, never more than in the reign of the current government. With fledgling loyalties being tested by increasingly real threats, will we be able to take the right […]
“In India when people cast their votes, they vote their caste” Nothing can better sum up the political mind-set of the aam aadmi than these words of Shashi Tharoor. It makes even more sense when elections are being held in […]
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