Wiping out the cow population!

This article is my offering of love to that creature which is taken at night , thrown on top of hundreds of her kind , made to travel hundreds of miles, pulled out from the truck by her tail as her legs have broken and then,...

A New Delhi newspaper reported last Thursday that local authorities received 117 complaints of waterlogging, five of falling trees and six of building collapses, in one of which a four-year-old boy was killed. A school bus...

True friends of Animals

How many Indians abroad work for animals in the countries they live in ? I was in Chicago fifteen years ago at a 6000 strong Jain convention. All rich, all educated. I was there to lecture about animal welfare but when I...

Notwithstanding minor differences over the draft of the nuclear liability bill, the fact that the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - and even the Left - are on the same page on its passage through parliament...

Two thousand, two hundred and seventy-five years ago the ruler of Magadha learned from the experiences of Kalinga. It seems that the contemporary master of Pataliputra is set to repeat that episode, learning a new lesson...

Mamata Banerjee's ascent is based on an unrehearsed, inchoate, impulsive political movement, which has surged ahead of other parties in recent years in acquiring close grassroots links. As the name of her party, Trinamool...

The Congress is reaping in Kolkata what it sowed in Siliguri. And anyone that believes Mamata Banerjee won't shove the fact in Congress faces obviously doesn't know the lady. Just to refresh everyone's memories, in September...

The West Bengal poll results may well mark the beginning of the end for the Left. Even the most optimistic among its supporters can no longer expect the Communists to win next year's assembly elections. The series of...

Animals in Hindu mythology

If you believe in God then you should automatically assume that everything he has created is divine and worthy of worship. You cannot accept and reject his creations – love a human, hate a snake, love a dog but eat a cow...

India's institutions of higher learning are degenerating into citadels of the highest corruption. Is it already too late to stop the rot? In 2006 a study conducted by NASSCOM (the National Association of Software and...

The day after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani decided on initiating greater official interactions between the two countries while conversing in Thimphu, the Americans...

The Manmohan Singh government demonstrated its durability by surviving the cut motions brought against it by the opposition in the Lok Sabha even if its success was largely due to the miscalculations of its over-enthusiastic...

Bugs-The beneficial ones

I was in a naturopathy centre for a week. A fellow starver was a woman who claimed that she spent all day , every day , gardening in her 500 yard patch. She pulled out every 'weed ', killed every insect , poked and snipped...

The intervention of a section of politicians and social commentators has added a new, mainly retrogressive, dimension to the continuing controversy over the Indian Premier League (IPL). Even as the focus remains on suspected...

Just as sibling rivalry can cause fissures in a corporate empire, political parties too can break up for similar reasons. One recent example was the disintegration of the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra because the two cousins,...