The Tamilnadu Chief Minister Mr.Karunanidhi's steadfast insistence on the construction of Sethu Samudram project and his sidekick, the Central Environment and Shipping minister Mr.T.R.Baalu's enthusiasm and energy for this project are a blatant bid for swindling billions of public money with scant respect for the eco-sensitivity of the region ( Read more... )

So Taslima Nasrin is attacked by fundamentalists. What's the big deal about this...why is the media blowing it out of proportion...this outburst among the intelligentsia arises because they think that India is a mature democracy and that the attack smacks of intolerance ( Read more... )

Ponneri is a small town near Madras. Half a century ago, Ranga Iyengar was the principal of the Government Board High School there. There is nothing different about this except that his son, Srinivasa Varadan, has risen to be one of the greatest mathematicians India has ever produced, winning the Abel Prize for Mathematics this year ( Read more... )

"China follows "no-strings attached" policy in providing aid and loans to African nations, a strategy that encourages bad governance and corruption. Beijing's studied practice of non-intervention ( Read more... )