Jai Hind: Proud to be an Indian

AT A time when the world is witnessing unrest among different religion and regions, a movie like ‘Fitna’ has just added fuel to the fire.
Fitna is an Arabic word used to ‘describe all things that can test the faith and is sometimes synonymous to evil’. Fitna is a film by Dutch politician (considered to be [...]

Tibetans and Indians of Tibetan origin have been protesting the occupation and repression of their land and culture in the past couple of weeks. Not that they did not protest for the past 50 years; just that no one really bothered to listen to them earlier, and with the summer Olympics approaching, obviously they are [...]

 No event since independence has more adversely affected India’s security than the fall of Tibet. Tibet’s annexation by China created a new geopolitical reality by bringing Han forces to India’s frontiers for the first time in history. Within 11 years of extending its full control over Tibet, China invaded India — a war whose wounds [...]

March 23 is the death anniversary of one of the most heroic figures of the Indian freedom movement. Few people remember it, though. Forget the rest of India, even the children of the village where he was born, do not know anything about him. The Free Press Journal in its issue of 24th March 1931 [...]

THE BATTLE of Longewala is part of army folklore. This is a fairy tale of 100 odd soldiers and their steely resolve, which forced an entire Pakistani brigade, backed by an armoured regiment of 45 tanks, to retreat in the 1971 war. This fascinating story was also captured on celluloid in the film ‘Border’, directed [...]

I WAS at the Bombay Hockey Association ground in Mumbai to meet a friend of mine who plays hockey at junior level when the news of India’s failure to qualify for the Olympics broke out. The players on the ground were stunned. I talked to my friend in the evening and he detailed me the [...]

Indian Hockey stooped to a new low when it failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics to be held later this year. This is the first time in its history of 80 years that the Men’s Hockey team has failed to qualify for the event. Facing a do or die battle against Great Britain in [...]

The Maharashtra government is planning reservations for the economically backward class in education and government jobs. This quota will be in addition to the already existing reservations made on the basis of caste. While the former is a welcome move, the latter causes more harm than good.
Most visionaries are of the view that reservations, if [...]

CONDOM OR Nirodh is one word, which is still not being used in our society openly but with the problem of population bomb looming over India and AIDS control programme, have got wide recognition and a large number of people are open to the word Nirodh or condom. Nirodh, meaning protection was the brainchild of [...]

WE, AS a nation of a billion plus people, have a habit of making heroes out of people. Whenever the cricket team goes out and does well, we give it a royal welcome back home. If a women’s cricket team were to win the World Cup and come, not even the media would be at [...]