By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 9:
There are striking similarities between the outcomes of the recent Indian and French parliamentary elections. For one thing, in both, the extreme Right Wing suffered a telling blow.
In India, the Rightist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 4:
In a controversial step, Narendra Modi government in India has replaced the country’s criminal laws by new ones on the plea that the old laws were “colonial” in character and were meant to sustain British...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, July 1:
Cross-border political assassinations, allegedly carried out by States, are no longer the exclusive preserve of the world’s superpowers. Lesser powers are also resorting to it now, to achieve their domestic goals such as the elimination...
The latest USIRF mentions anti-conversion laws, love jihad and the burning of churches in Manipur as the main violations in India in the year under review
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, June 27: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USIRF) has...
Both supporters and opponents quote research work to justify their view.
By P.K.Balachandran
There is a raging controversy over sex change or gender re-assignment in the United States with both supporters and opponents quoting research studies to justify their view.
Gender re-assignment...
Hindutva?
N Sathiya Moorthy 5 June 2024
If the Bharatiya Janata Party-National Democratic Alliance comes back to power with the poll-time alliance intact, then, at least allies like the Telugu Desam Party and the Janata Dal-United should be prepared to be embarrassed and/or...
The grievances of the indigenous tribes of the area are being highlighted for furthering the West’s geopolitical interests
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, June 3: Some Western powers appear to be eyeing the tribal areas straddling North-East India, Myanmar, Bangladesh and China.
The...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, May 30:
The renowned Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore had warned that nationalisms based on power and pride and devoid of higher values like social harmony, will destroy societies instead of building them.
Tagore expressed his thoughts on "nationalism"...
By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, May 25:
Recent events make one wonder if the US will be able to maintain its dogged support for Israel’s hard line on Palestine and Gaza.
A number of smaller but important European countries have openly said that...
Contrary to general perception that India’s imports from China is high in only electronics sector, China is the top supplier in all 8 industrial sectors including electronics, says the Global Trade Research Institute in a report. The institute is headed...
By N Sathiya Moorthy
8 May 2024
Had it not been for the slow but sure emergence of China as a threat to the Western order, would India have been accepted as a near-equal partner by individual Western nations, jointly and...
N Sathiya Moorthy 21 April 2024
Closer the presidential election gets, the more complex it is getting. Of course, it has always been the case, including the question if the parliamentary polls should precede presidential election. In the past, incumbent Presidents and...
