By Girish Nikam

The much awaited press conference of Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh, after a five year gap, in the nation’s capital today, turned out to be quite a dud. Apart from him making it clear that he was in no mood to abdicate his post in hurry, and making it clear that Rahul Gandhi is [...]

By Girish Nikam
The forthcoming general elections will be throwing up many issues which are bound to be taken up by the political class and the media for discussion as the campaign hots up. One however wonders whether what happened over five months back at the Batla House in the capital will be an issue, at [...]

By Girish Nikam
should unquestionably go down in the history of mankind as a defining moment. It was not just to the African-American man and his family members who stood there displaying no signs of nervousness, but all those joyous millions who had a ring side view, either on the streets of Washington DC around the [...]

By Girish Nikam
The enormity of the fraud perpetrated by the Satyam Computers Boss, B.Ramalinga Raju is still unfurling. What has however unfolded so far has been described in the most colourful epithets already, and it is difficult to find new ones to describe it any better. Now that the bespectacled mild mannered Prince of Cyberabad, [...]

By Girish Nikam
“It has taken a long time coming——– Change has come to America!” In those charged words of the President-elect of US of A, beckons a future, not just for that country, but to the nations around the world. A world less prejudiced, a world less racist, a world more just and a world [...]

By Girish Nikam
Now, now, don’t tell me Hindus can also indulge in terrorism! How bizarre! How can that be possible? This vote bank politics is being taken just too far. You can’t brand nationalists as terrorists. Don’t push Hindus into a corner like this. It will be at your own peril. There is no way [...]

By Girish Nikam
It makes one dizzy, trying to follow what’s happening in the United States. One may ask why should one follow what’s happening there at all, when there is so much happening in our own country—killings, rapes, conversions— oh yes, durga pooja (yes its happening right now outside my window)? Well, if one has [...]

By Girish Nikam
‘Freedom of the press is the cornerstone of any democracy’ is a well worn-out cliché though it has stood the test of time as a universal truth. No one in a functional democracy like ours can deny the importance of the freedom of the press. It is also a fact that this freedom [...]

When the UPA Government set up the Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee, which was known as the Prime Minister’s High Level Committee for preparation of Report on Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India, it raised the hackles of many people in this country, both political and non-political.

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‘Whether sting operations are in public interest or to make money have to be examined one day,’ ’sting operations are generally outsourced…Very often these tapes are sold for lakhs of rupees by those who do the string operation.’— Chief Justice Y.K.Sabharwal
 
The draft bill includes 16 do’s and don’ts for TV news channels, including a [...]