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राजनीती का खेल 27 Dec 2012 | 03:14 am
... इस राजनीती की शतरंज में मोहरे पल-पल बदलते हैं। हरी-भूरी गिरगिट की भांति नेता सब रंग बदलते हैं।। आज जो विपक्ष में बैठा हर दम शोर मचाता है। हरे-हरे नोटों को देख अलग ही राग सुनाता है।। सत्ता...
Red Jihad: Battle for South Asia - The doomsday conspiracy 27 Nov 2012 | 04:04 am
Dan Brown got inspired to write his debut novel ‘Digital Fortress’ (1998), in which protagonists raced against time to save the world from a possible annihilation, after the thrill he felt upon readin...
Murder in Amaravati - A promising start 19 May 2012 | 08:00 am
A murder, a string of suspects and an unlikely detective trying to solve the jigsaw puzzle by putting together the right ‘motive, means and opportunity’ for each suspect; the plot is not new but the w...
Hindutva's Orwellian Agenda 31 Mar 2012 | 03:38 am
Control over the past is “more terrifying than mere torture and death,” writes George Orwell ([1949] 2006, p.28) in his dystopian novel, Nineteen-Eighty Four. Orwell in this novel ridiculed all the ‘...
Panda, Chameleon, Cats or the Dark Horse??? 24 Feb 2012 | 10:56 pm
Click on the image to read my take on the five nominees of Academy Award for Best Animation Feature 2012 or go further to read the complete text without straining your eyes. (I am not paying for your...
Sino-Indian Relations: Cautious optimism and not hysteria is the way forward 5 Feb 2012 | 08:53 am
In his controversial war memoirs, Himalayan Blunder – a curtain raiser to the Sino-Indian war of 1962 (1969), Brigadier John Dalvi, a POW during that war, narrates an incident from his days as an inst...
Dam-ned? 15 Dec 2011 | 08:51 am
Mullaperiyar, or Mullaiperiyar Dam depending upon your loyalties, is a catastrophe in waiting. The adjoining info-graphic traces the history of the issue and lists the arguments given by the two confl...
क्या तेरा है, क्या मेरा है? 6 Nov 2011 | 07:48 am
An attempt to present a poem through an audio-visual medium. Images Courtesy: Various sources. Kindly bring any copyright violations to notice. If you liked/disliked the article, kindly visit my bl...
Koodankulam to Chennai 21 Oct 2011 | 07:21 am
As banana bajji wrapped in a newspaper took the round of the motley gathering on the roof of a house in Besant Nagar, no one was too keen to have it. They had arrived at the venue at five o’clock as p...
A political victory or a lost Cause? 19 Oct 2011 | 12:22 am
The result of Hisar by-election is being read in many ways by the political pundits. The event kick-started the anti-Congress campaign of Team Anna. It seems as if Team Anna has taken it to itself to ...
