With sky rocketing cut-offs for admissions in the University of Delhi, students seldom could find the desired college for the desired course. After attending classes at the ‘undesired’ college, they often plan to migrate to the best one in the University as the current one fails to suit their personality. Moreover, social stigma urges them [...]
I begin in the name of God, with my hopes attached for my subject is complex and with a troubled soul that is at unrest with each word I type. It is said to be better to debate a question without settling it, than it is to settle a question without debating it. Having said [...]
26/11 they say, they faced, they cried for, they lit candles for, and they say again it is a new year, new dawn. A bunch of young men walked in to execute terror, led by misled ideologies, corrupt dictionary of a jehadi and an absolute indifference towards humanity. Whatever was said and done, there was [...]
Go back 20 years down the memory lane and you would have found Bengaluru as a clean calm city filled with Lal baghs, vidyarthi bhavans, MTRs, bugul rocks and the list goes on, probably no one would have ever imagined in their wildest dreams that a city known as “Garden city of India” would one [...]
The main question that many leaders in NATO and the EU are asking themselves after Russia’s adventure into Georgia is how to stop Russian forces from invading another country at will. But looking forward, beyond the recent incident in Georgia, the West has a bigger question to ask itself. The question is whether or not [...]
Since he was elected as next President of the United States on the historical Tuesday, Obama scheduled several meetings with world leaders including President Medvedev of Russia. Two leaders, both relatively young and active, will talk various subjects on mutual disarmament over the next several years. Here are two issues on which Obama commented on [...]
Have you ever thought about why you write? What is it that makes you spend, perhaps, hours a day scribbling or tapping away at a keyboard? For some it’s ‘just a way of earning a living’. And why not! If we’re observant enough, and articulate enough, to express our ideas such that others will pay [...]
In Islamabad, a bomb exploded in Marriott hotel, and killed more than 50 people including the Czech Ambassador (as of 21 September). Allegedly, religious extremists and terrorists nesting in Pakistan conducted the strike, according to government officials, scholars, and journalists. Regardless of Pakistani position of the so-called “war on terrorism,” its unstable domestic security is [...]
Given the freedom of speech, I write this article NOT from the ANTI-Russian perspective. I aware that many civilians (2000 plus at the time of writing) have died in face of the Russian attacks. Some of my friends freed Georgia, while some still stay in the country. At the moment, Tbilisi declared the cease fire, [...]
Death – a very horrid but truth, such that it is almost impossible to like. The fear of physical pain and misery forms an enclosure around us, so much that we fail to do anything about it and in effect, keep ourselves more engaged in worldly affairs for undying distraction. No living man knows what [...]