Month: December 2010

By Atul Cowshish The media in India is truly bipolar. And thanks in no small measure to Madame Niira Radia, the fact is now evident to the lay reader and the ‘aam’ viewer, who no longer has to suffer from the illusion that the world of journalism is defined by Read more ………

Altaf Hussain, the London based leader of the Mohajirs in the Sindh province, is not known to be an old man in a hurry but he appears to be testing the nerves of fellow Sindhi, Asif Zardari and his dapper prime minister Gilani, who have, of late, become Pakistan’s TINA Read more ………

By Bill Van Auken Two reports produced by US intelligence agencies sharply contradict the American military’s claims of success in the nine-year-old war in Afghanistan. The National Intelligence Estimates on Afghanistan and Pakistan were recently presented in secret to members of the Senate and House intelligence committees. They represent the Read more ………

By W.A. Sunil and John Chan Tensions remain high in the Bangladeshi garment industry as a result of Sunday’s bloody crackdown by the Awami League government, in which police fatally shot four striking workers, followed two days later by a factory fire that killed more than 30 workers near Dhaka, Read more ………

By Prof Surinder Bhatnagar Ajmer based scholar & Hindi Poet I love India and my heart bleeds when it is injured. Bharat celebrated Dipawali, its age old festival of lights – the day of Ram’s return. Restless like any human, Ram said to his brother, ‘O, Lakshamana- this land of Read more ………