Senior Advocate Dr Menaka Guruswamy’s appearance last week alongside Senior Advocate Mahesh Jethmalani before a two-member bench of the Supreme Court of India to oppose the Tamil Nadu government’s setting some conditions to the grant of permission to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to carry out route marches in the state had one of the […]
Memories of reporting a momentous event in late 20th century world history Throughout the mid-1980s onwards, if there was one event that was being most eagerly awaited worldwide – as a welcome one or as an inevitability – it was the end of the Sino-Soviet schism that had begun with the very founding of the […]
Dear Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, You had once been a member of a secular party but seem to have converted to Hindutva, abandoning the anti-Brahminical Lingaayath faith founded by the great Basavanna in whose followers’ family you were born. Your father having been a staunch secularist, a celebrated Supreme Court judgement of 1994 upholding secularism, SR […]
When I wrote my first article for B/R, I knew I was treading a difficult path. Owing allegiance to any team, any particular player means entering the battlefield with his/her rivals’ fans. They swoop down on you and rip you apart, questioning each of your points, assertions and opinions.
ENDLESSLY GREEN 