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In a condemnable move, Union Law Minister and Attorney General have betrayed the supreme national interest of Indians to protect US corporate interests. US double standard in the handling of BP’s oil spill disaster and Union Carbide Corporation’s disaster in India is quite manifest. Indian Parliament must act and support our government which is under tremendous pressure from the US Corporation and the US government.

"Patriotism,” Samuel Johnson said nearly 250 years ago, “is the last refuge
of a scoundrel.” These days in India, the adage can be safely applied to
nationalism. There is no other explanation of the threat to arrest and try
Arundhati Roy on charges of sedition for what she said at a public meeting on Kashmir

The International Metalworkers’ Federation is writing to Foxconn and Nokia global management demanding they intervene and ensure workers’ rights are respected at the Foxconn plant located in the Nokia Special Economic Zone in Chennai, India.

Mirza Ghalib had pondered the merger of heaven and hell to create a bit more room for a leisurely walk.

A separate Persian verse, ascribed to Kashmir’s beauty sees it as paradise on earth, which is how most Kashmiris would want to celebrate their homeland. If we merge the two couplets there’s a fair chance it would read like Indian and Pakistan foreign policies on Kashmir.

[in Bangladesh] restoration of secularism as a fundamental policy of the state would not entail any ban on religion-based party, especially those named after Islam. Why then, one might ask, the restoration of secularism as a fundamental policy of the state? Just for the sake of it? Secularism is about separation of religion and politics, about absence of religion in the worldly affairs of the state. But the government has chosen to turn the concept on its head, just to appease the religion-based parties that they hobnob with, and even pamper, especially in times of elections.