By Girish Nikam

It is a coincidence that the first anniversary of the mind-numbing and the most daring terrorist strike ever witnessed in India in Bombay last year, and the leak and subsequent publication of the 17 year old inquiry into the demolition of Babri Masjid has happened around the same time.
Though some would feel [...]

By Girish Nikam

The Language chauvinists are at it again. The disgusting scenes witnessed in the Maharashtra Assembly earlier this week, has once again brought into the forefront the dangers of linguistic chauvinism. Especially in a country which has so many languages and dialects. What Raj Thackeray and his newly elected goons to the Maharashtra Assembly [...]

By Girish Nikam

The crisis which has engulfed Karnataka’s BJP Government, the first for the party in South India, has been in the making for the last over a year. In fact, less than two months after the hot-headed B.S.Yeddyurappa took over as the Chief Minister, political observers had started noticing disenchantment setting in against the [...]