India Behind The Lens (News Centre)

It was a Friday night, 4th January, 2013 and much like business as usual, after returning from office and gleeful at the thought that I had two full days for myself I sat down beside my computer and opened twitter. Media’s naughty distorti..

The protests in Delhi about the brutal gang rape of a 23 year old girl are more than just a spontaneous outpouring of grief over the victim. The citizens of this country are seething with rage over a callous unresponsive government and judiciary..

Undersigned is an unconfirmed advisory issued by Government of India. If true, it shows another attempt, rather contempt, by fascist and intolerant Congress to gag free speech of the Press because a few TV channels have been honestly covering th..

Indian Political stage appears to be deteriorating with every passing day. The recent FDI debate and its results in both the houses attest this, if not anything else. Though fundamentally an executive decision in it’s nature, debate on FDI..

A deep personal animosity, symptomatic of a deeper anti-Hindu bias, was reflected in some recent, very heated, television debates centered round the writings of Nobel Laureate Sir Vidia Naipaul. To recapitulate briefly, Sir Vidia was being honou..

The party with a difference is how BJP has projected itself in the last two decades. But post losing power in 2004 the party seems to be on a major search operation for that “Difference” it was identified with. The biggest problem pl..

A couple of months ago i asked a keen political observer friend of mine, how Manmohan Singh who is touted as an honest and brilliant economist could tolerate the loot that goes on in his watch.

He wittily replied that Manmohan Sin..

India has emerged as the largest arms importer in the world. More than 70% of the needs of the Indian armed forces are imported and Indian weapons purchases account for about 9% of the global arms trade. Each time a weapon system is imported, th..

Did you know that the dowry system is a result of the socio economic changes brought about by the British? This article is based on the book ‘Dowry Murder, The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime’ By Veena Talwar Oldenburg. To know ..

The Indian democracy is hailed as the largest & brightest in the whole world. Student politics is the first step of any successful democratic system. I strongly believe that if Indian Democracy would have been a person, Congress & NSUI w..

Environmentalism is a broad hypothesis ideology and social moment regarding concerns for environmental conservation and necessary improvement For this reason concepts such as land ethics, environmental ethics biodiversity, ecology and biophilla ..

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India tabled three reports in Parliament on Friday 17 August 2012 indicting the Congress-led UPA government for having caused major losses to the state through its policies on power, coal and aviation..

We live in times where praising Narendra Modi at once makes you ‘communal’ and calling him names automatically earns you an entry into the elite gallery of Indian secularists. And this epidemic has certainly contaminated a very large..

Universally admired, Pussy Riot (or PR for short) has been promoted as superstars. But what are they? A rock or punk group they are not. A British journalist marvelled: they produce no music, no song, no painting, nada, r..