Isabel Hofmeyr presents a detailed study of Gandhi's work in South Africa (1893--1914), when he was the some-time proprietor of a printing press and launched the periodical Indian Opinion. The skills Gandhi honed as a newspaperman--distilling stories fr...
Every day there are innumerable killings across the country but if in one case, if it is an inter-religious crime, the newspaper uses this term to strengthen this propaganda though Love Jihad was a term used by ultra right-wing groups and it is a figment of their imagination. However, the...
My 120+ Newspaper “Op-Eds” 2005-2015 on World Politics, Monetary Economics, Diplomacy, Governance, India, China, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, America, etc “Haksar, Manmohan and Sonia” (2014) My (armchair) experience of the 1999 Kargil war (Or, “Actionable Intelligence” in the Internet age:...
NCC provided me another opportunity – to learn power flying at Delhi Flying Club. I soon had my Private Pilot License. In the meantime, I applied for and got through the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udan Akademy for the course to get a Commercial Pilot’s License (CPL). However, I had no ...
"During my visit to Chennai in April, I went through theadvertisementsin the matrimonial column of an Indian English newspaper. I found these two ads very interesting: Girl, 29,convent-educated,singleand innocent,wheatish complexion, software professional seeks a suitable boy.Casteand creed no bar...
bill has been framed, it has to be published in the newspapers and the general public is asked to comment in a democratic manner. The bill may then be amended to incorporate the public opinion in a constructive manner and then may be introduced in the Parliament by ministers or private ...
The principle which punishes an apostate with death must be applicable to public preaching of kufr and it is admitted by Maulana Abul Hasanat, Ghazi Siraj-ud-Din Munir and Master Taj-ud-Din Ansari, though the last subordinates his opinion to the opinion of the ulama, that any faith other ...
The period of emergency (1975–1977), declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was the brief period when India's media was faced with potential government retribution. The country consumed 99 million newspaper copies as of 2007—making it the second largest market in the world for news papers...
Exposing herself to the hot, bustling city streets of Islamabad and by driving to the rocky and remote districts adjoining Pakistan's tribal areas, Zahida says she learned a lot about the country she lived in and its people. The Pathans of the tribal north-west, despite a reputation for fi...
“Indira Gandhi’s one and paramount good deed as India’s leader and indeed as a world leader of her time was to have fought a war that was so rare in international law for having been unambiguously just. And she fought it flawlessly. The cause had been thrust upon her by an evil ...