By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) Unlike in dictatorship or monarchy in democracy the credit for the development or blame for the backwardness of any state or country is not thrust upon any individual. Here it is a system which works. Like a sporting team, the credit and blame for the success and failure are shared by [...]
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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Consolidation of ‘majority’ community after careful vilification of minorities at different places have resulted in massive mandates both at the Centre in 1985 as well as in Gujarat post 2002. Such trends are dangerous but continuously being used by political parties for their own purposes. India cannot afford to repeat them [...]
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By Amulya Ganguli The honours have turned out to be even in the three northeastern states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya. While the Left has romped home to yet another handsome victory in Tripura, its fifth in a row, the ruling National People’s Front has retained Nagaland. So has the Congress in Meghalaya. It’s worth [...]
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Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) The hard fact is that percentage-wise the number of rape cases all over India has come down in the last few years. The other crimes have increased manifold making rape no big news. Just go through any newspaper or tune to TV channels or surf inter-net one would find very fewer cases [...]
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By Shafey Danish (NVONews.Com) Yes, I too am tired of writing “allegedly” before every claim the police makes. I didn’t do this earlier. Blame this on, well, the sheer imaginative flair of the plots, which makes it really hard to suspend disbelief. Blame it partly on the contradictions that soon emerge in the police narrative [...]
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Following the sudden resignation of Pope Benedict XVI there are chances of a Latin Pope who may try to check growth of Protestantism in Americas, says Soroor Ahmed of NVONews.Com After two consecutive non-Italian Popes––John Paul-II from Poland and Benedict-XVI from Germany––there is likelihood of a non-European spiritual head of the 1.2 billion Roman Catholic [...]
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By Amulya Ganguli The government took a longer time to hang Afzal Guru than it did in Ajmal Kasab’s case but, ultimately, the ends of justice have been met in both instances. So, have been the ends of politics. It will be pointless to see these executions in isolation, like those of ordinary murderers. Since [...]
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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat It was early morning and our beautiful residence at the heart of Kumbha was engulfed in absolute fog yet most of us could finis our routine work in the morning because the facilities at the place. There were beautiful cottages which attracted every one and it was an experience for life [...]
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A US based Muslim scholar of Indian origin has asked demonstrators to stop demanding the ban on Vishwaroopam. Meanwhile its box office collections are going up By Syed Ubaidur Rahman Vishwaroopam has been released in North India in Hindi language, despite the film being banned in Tamil Nadu. Reports suggest that the film has been [...]
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Protests are being organized and threats to stall the proceedings of next Lok Sabha session are being dished out to oppose the Home Minister Sushil Kukar Shinde’s statement about the Hindu terrorism, its links with BJP and RSS. (23 Jan 2013). There are two major components of this statement. One is the use of the [...]
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By Saroj Mohanty “Going to Timbuktu”. This bit of a statement, made often in jest in metropolitan India, refers to some distant, exotic place on a corner of the earth. But for the clued up and those who care to find out, Timbuktu is the fabled city at the southern edge of the Sahara in [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) It seems to be the case of bite off more than you can chew. The French military operation in Mali, a small country of 12 million, actually brought to the notice the fact that there is civil war going on there. Had it not been so very few outside Africa would [...]
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By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, The Uttar Pradesh capital may be hundreds of miles away from Islamabad but the two cities have a connect of sorts in the fiery cleric Tahirul Qadri. The 61-year-old former professor of international constitutional law does not only trace his ancestral roots to Lucknow but also visited the city in March [...]
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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat The atrocious beheading of Indian soldiers at the LOC and subsequent firing between the Indian and Pakistan troops must not be allowed to escalate into a blame game. The Pakistanis have as usual rejected Indian claiming for ‘beheading’ of the soldiers while the Indian intelligence and army blames the Special Operation [...]
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