Politicians are more often than not are in the news for the wrong reason. The irony is like a bad coin they seldom go out of circulation and are soon back in the news...

In a political order that is filled with corrupt, manipulative and war crimes-committing men, the late Bashir Gemayel stands out as the worst. Gemayel was the son of...

In the United States there are good dictators and bad dictators and the sole criteria of measurement for the U.S. government and for the docile U.S. media (which has no...

Jimmy Carter caused a wave of controversy a few years back when he published a book on the Middle East subtitled “Peace Not Apartheid” Because of the provocative...

S.P.S. Rathore has been let off lightly in the Ruchika Girhotra case. When law-keepers subvert the system, they must get double punishment. An aspiring tennis player, a...

Imagine having to look forward to having your genitals mutilated during the Christmas holidays, and not in some village in Africa but right in the good old U.K. Even...

Is the political leadership of India Inc confused, indecisive or weak? Kabhi haan kabhi naa (sometimes ‘yes’ sometimes ‘No’). This is what I can say about...

Seeing the news article, Moms held for bid to swap babies, I noticed one interesting thing, “One of the women, who has two daughters, wanted a male child while the...

Nearly a year ago, Israel launched a military offensive against the Gaza Strip summarized by a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) report as follows: “The...

What if often missing in any American debate about Middle East terrorism that is that it is not Arabs and/or Muslims who are original in their terrorism, but that Arabs...

The product of French racism and obtuse labor law. Racism is present in every society, and French racism against Arabs is ubiquitous; but the setting in which it...

When you strip Nigeria of all its borrowed and illusive attires, what will be left is a wretched half-child-half-man nation on the verge of implosion. Nigerians and...

When a farmer from Moradabad, Habib Hussain, goes to Saudi Arabia for a job and feels like returning to India because he is unhappy with the job, he cannot get back...

No, no, the Pope did not have too much “Eggnog” and then fell over. But, instead, was literally knocked out a deranged woman on the televised Christmas Eve...

Recently an engineer has been held on 23/12/2009 by the Bangalore police for a cyber crime committed by him punishable under Section 67 Information Technology Act,...

In a further attempt to make a safer environment for women outside their homes, Goonda Daman Dal was created on December 24,2009. This team would act on any complaint...

It has been and still is a very thorny issue in Uganda. It is not yet resolved. It is an issue that is going to greatly run in the Ugandan media next year. 2010 is...

Given the asymmetry in power between the U.S.-backed Israel and the stateless Palestinians, it is not surprising that when one analyzes the water situation in the Holy...

Every X-Mas takes my heart to hundreds who died in Dabwali fire. It was December 23rd. This was a day not too good to be brought to memory but for the losses that all...

What is perhaps the most potent restriction on an aspiring entrepreneur is a barrier to entry to the marketplace. A barrier to entry can acquire many forms and...