Let's not forget he is still in jail, in solitary confinement, outside the 'national debate' on ethics and absence of ethics post Wikileaks, forgotten by the Indian Parliament, and the 'secular' ru
Despite the 2G scam and a spate of allegations against Karunanidhi’s extended family, the DMK alliance may still make it at the hustings
Akash Bisht Delhi
Shamed by scams, a discredited DMK is pushing the dynastic threshold even as the autumn of the patriarch enjoys the greedy dynamics of power
PC Vinoj Kumar Chennai
With a case in consumer court, a high-end beauty clinic is in the spotlight for irreversible damage caused to the eyesight, psyche and future of a young girl
Shaweta Anand Delhi
Profiling Kanimozhi, who has emerged as one of the key protagonists in the 2G spectrum scam. It's a dark, sad poem for the Tamil poetess
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
I was roped recently into moderating a panel on Faiz at the Left Forum after the original moderator, David Barsamian, well-known radio journalist/producer, couldn't make it at the last minute.
In his last days, an ailing Arjun Singh sat silently, sphinx-like, in the living room of his Akbar Road residence in Delhi, giving an impression of disinterestedness and ennui about what was really
In a tangential, sinister manner, he is a character straight out of Mario Puzo’s classic Godfather. Or a typical ‘don’ blockbuster. Being elder, he always fancied himself as the natural heir to his father, the Kalaignar, M Karunanidhi.
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
Praful Bidwai, eminent columnist and founder-member of Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP), speaks with Hardnews on how we are sitting on an apocalypse with the obsessive quest for nuclear energy, despite the mass disasters in Japan and Chernobyl
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
The weather has not exactly cleared, but the two-week Festival of India that opened in Vienna recently is a colourful reminder that spring can't really be far behind.
The story of Anna Akhmatova and the mothers in the prison queues in Leningrad proves that women cannot be forcibly mirrored into the masculinist surplus — even of a revolution Manash Bhattacharjee Delhi
The story of the disappearance of vast forests in central India comprises greed, destruction of tribal cultures, and the same old story of corrupt forest mafia
Aritra Bhattacharya Meghnagar, Jhabua (MP)
