India Behind The Lens (News Centre)

Calicut University syllabus for B.A-B.Sc degree courses contained a poem “ode to sea” written by an ex Guantanamo prisoner and a present Al Qaeda Terrorist. After protest by some students

National media simply do not care about Kerala, due to many obvious reasons. They had OB vans at place in Karnataka, which is a neighbouring state. But for some obvious reasons, events happening in Kerala do not reach the national audience; it does not reach media courts. Media whic..

One friend of mine said to me last week, "Narendra Modi just need to speak once in a week, his rivals will ensure that he is in the news for that week or more. It only helps him politically." If you observe how media works these days, you will also agree to this comment by my friend, immaterial what your political leanings are.  Media’s obsession about Modi is more than B..

"Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) must be exposed” says Dileep Bhat, who has written two of the common written examinations for the post of Probationary officer/management trainees. According to him the IBPS is not transparent and are hiding something from the aspirants, which forced him to file RTI, to which the body responded "The issue as to whether or not th..

The Hindu carried the Op-Ed Vivekananda’s legacy of Universalism about Swami Vivekananda on April 10,2013.  It was written by a former JNU Professor K. N. Panikkar. This is my honest and humble attempt to rebut the article rooted in lies by the &ldq..

A few Questions came to my mind as I was going through the Judgement by Gujarat Full Bench on the Issue of Constitutionality of Minority Scholarship. The important observations by the Judges is summarised here and the full judgement can be read

Some Important observations made by Gujarat HC full bench on the constitutionality of Scholarship scheme to minorities. Majority (3-2) held that the scheme is constitutional.

Majority view and some questions

• The Government of the day would have its own socio­economic ideology.   We must also remember that the..

A few days ago, at Chintan Shivir, The home minister of our country made a statement that BJP and RSS are running Terror camps across the country and also he used the term Hindu Terror and later he corrected it to Saffron terror. Congress party members were quick to laud him for his remarks and Hafiz Saeed, JuD leader and well known Global terrorist also thanked Allah for making Shinde speak ..

The thought of comparing RSS ideology with Quran came to my mind when I saw a celebrated member of Political party comparing RSS with Taliban in context with the alleged comments made by RSS chief on marriage. The comments made by RSS chief were misquoted by some news agencies, and the anti RSS bogeys of political parties were quick to condemn it. They said it is anti women mindset of RSS, ot..

Hate speech by Akbar owaisi was not made into National headlines by Main stream media, but by Social media. It was not today that social media discussed and debated this, but since more than a week ago. Barkha Dutt is right Social media of today represents the opposite side of main stream media,  just like MSM claims they are “secular” , SM claims they are “communal&rdq..

Supreme court in its judgment on 26/11 slammed media for their lust for TRP which jeopardized the security of the nation, and even helped terrorist know the movement of Indian forces. Below are the important points from today's verdict page 245-249.

# It is evident that the terrorists who were entrenched at those places and more than them, their collaborators across the bor..

I remember talking to a communist friend, about the riots happened in Mumbai. Although he or the party he belong to did not initiate any debate on this Muslim communalism happening country wide these days, he was quick to condemn it. He said he and his party is equally against Islamic fundamentalists and Hindu fundamentalist organization like RSS. He also added terrorism has no religion. I as..

The communist, seculars and liberals are notorious for their ability to twist facts and suppress history which tells unpleasant stories which are not politically helpful for them. The victim of this propaganda by leftist historians and others, who we now call Seculars, was the Rashtreeya SwayamSevak Sangh, the Hindu nationalist organization, which is still the largest organization in India.

This was the day when Akhand Bharat got partitioned to Bharat and Pakistan ; A democratic state and a theocratic state. Many nationalist Organisations observe this day as Akhand Bharat Smrithi Divas.

Some people have huge problems with the word “Bharat”, not to mention their issues with the concept of Akhand Bharat. They say this is India, and we should use the word..

The hell broke loose yesterday near Azad Maidan in Mumbai. According to our media, they do not know who organized the function yesterday at the place and why it turned violent. They even do not know people of which religion went rioting all over the place. But yes, we all are not dumb like our media friends are. We know it were Muslims who rioted for the alleged attacks against Bangladeshi Mu..

India is a secular country with about 80 percent of its population calling itself Hindu. Hindu-ism is recognized as the world’s third largest religion, First being christinaity and second being Islam. Although Hindu-ism is looked as upon as a religion, it can only be defined as “A group of faiths rooted in the religious ideas of India.” About 15 percent of the people in the ..

I remember chatting with a self-declared Liberal, during a fine day when MF Hussain accepted Qatar citizenship. The liberals were shouting, with beating on their chests, and were pleading to him ..

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has not participated in any parliament debate since 2006, the records in Loksabha website proves it. However,before UPA came into power in 2004, she had 44 debates in h..

A news site of Gujarat reported this news about an RTI activist who got murdered in Gujarat couple of days ago.It reads as below.

Nadim Saiyad, a friend of media persons and police, a cow pr..

Every morning these days after visiting a nearby temple, I come back at about six thirty , and switch on the Television and browse through the channels. Most of the Hindi channels show “How J..

Dear PM of India, Err, let me start by informing you that I am an aam aadmi, in whose name your government has come into power, so I do not know how to write an official letter to the Prime Minis..

Are Cong-ruled states equally prone to communal violence as the rest? : Asked a chief editor of a news channel which claims “whatever it takes”. The question he posed, is indeed to co..

“Mr Agnivesh was almost like a MOLE” said KiranBedi in a tv interview. Many would be surprised and some would be shocked , but those on Internet and social networking..