These are articles published under the Itihaas heading over multiple decades and in different newspapers
August 8th, 2002 The primary job of a ruler is to work for the safety and prosperity of the people he rules. The rulers of India today, MLAs and MPs as well as the Ministers and their cohorts should remember this when they are voting themselves more pay, allowances and perquisites. Also when they deny… Continue reading A Story from Iran
July 22nd, 2002 When cult figures made out to be above temptation and beyond reproach are found to have feet of clay how should the followers react?We have two examples from here and now. Some priests of the Catholic Church, the oldest established corporation in the world and a trans or multinational one at that… Continue reading How to React to a Letdown
June 18th, 2002 How do we understand cult figures like Sarvarkar? Was he a freedom fighter? What does the record say? When cult figures made out to be above temptation and beyond reproach are found to have feet of clay how should the followers react? We have two examples from here and now. Some priests… Continue reading Sarvarkar’s mercy plea
June 5th, 2002 The build up on the frontier may not be, as alleged by the opponents of the ruling RSS/VHP/BJP/BajrangDal Shiv Sena combine, a deliberate diversionary tactic designed to take Gujarat away from banner headlines and prime time telecasts. There is no denying the fact that no one talks about the sufferings of the… Continue reading 1902 Versus 2002
April 2nd, 2002 With the death of Queen Mother Elizabeth, half a century after that of her husband George VI, the last person to use the ‘Imperial’ title for India has passed on. Her husband ceased to be Emperor in 1947 when India and Pakistan became independent of Britain. The inscript ‘Ind. Imp.’ was dropped… Continue reading Itihaas: Death of the Last British Empress of India
September 18th, 2001 “The British conquered the world in a fit of absence of mind.” Sir John Seeley. The kind of hypocrisy this statement embodies has made England into “perfidious Albion” for their neighbours, the French as well as the rest of the world.
September 15th, 2001 “Here” is 11th September 2001. The only ‘Super’ power in the world, the United States of America has been dealt a blow in a Murmasthhaana, a vital spot. For the first time in history New York and Washington have experienced direct, physical assault. The attackers converted aircraft owned by United States of… Continue reading 11th September 2001: Where do we go from here?
31st December 2000 “What is the Truth?” asked Pontius Pilate and would not wait for an answer. Our current rulers do not ask. They manufacture what they want to be seen as the truth and the RSS/VHP/BJP propaganda machinery springs to action to repeat a lie over and over again until it comes to be… Continue reading Resolutions and Wishes for the Third Millenum
April 4th, 2000 The projection of a non-event like the Clinton visit into a mega occurrence shows the desperation of the Parivaar to have a success story before their power becomes dust and their carriages become pumpkins. To provide relief for our readers we shall revisit the 17th century. At that time Shah Jahan was… Continue reading The human side of the mughals
February 5th, 2000 January 22 of 2000 AD marks the first anniversary of the martyrdom of Graham Stuart Staines and his two sons, Timothy aged nine years and Philip aged seven. Staines was a missionary from Australia who had served lepers in the poor and backward state of Orissa for over three decades. The boys… Continue reading A memorial for the martyrs of January
