Sidhu as “anti-national”: A departing CM’s charge given short shrift by Lutyens Media

Navjot Singh Sidhu is a political lightweight compared to Captain Amarinder Singh. He has been in Congress for a mere four years. Amarinder has been twice CM and in...

There’s no pretending that Kohli and Board are on good terms as Kumble looms the new coach

There is no pretending that Indian cricket board and its team’s supremo Virat Kohli have anything more to share than public decency. And it doesn’t bode well...

The Utopian world of Green Energy: It’s impact could be as bad as Fossil Fuels

Time is fast running out. The world’s affluent nations, with their abundant greenhouse emissions, have to finally drag themselves across the starting line and begin...

US varsities teach ideologies and not ideas: A professor resigns

Over the last decade, it has been my privilege to teach at the university. My specialties are critical thinking, ethics and the Socratic method, and I teach classes like...

India has legitimate fear: Afghanistan could radicalize its Muslims

The best part of the visit by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolay Patrushev to New Delhi (September 7-8) was that the two countries...

Who runs cricket in this country? Or is it a rich man’s club with fans outside the door

We could say that Indian players have led to the cancellation of the Manchester Test. The two boards had too much at stake to do so. When the matches haven’t...

9/11: “I Was There”, as recounted by an Indian photojournalist of renown and simplicity

One is not sure if Kamal Sharma (right corner in image) understood the enormity of what he had just witnessed. In the early hours of 9/11, he had turned up to capture the...