Charlie Hebdo and lessons for intolerant India

Rise up for the right to offend. Let there be no holy cow, person, religion, ideology that cannot be criticised, ridiculed, parodied, lampooned. That's what differentiates you from the bigots who......

Pakistan sheltering Mullah Omar: Karzai

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has charged the Pakistani intelligence agencies with sheltering Taliban leader Muhammad Omar, also called Mullah Omar,in the Pakistani city of Quetta. 'We have solid,......

After Musharraf, it's Mukhtaran Mai's book

After having brought out President Pervez Musharraf's memoirs, his American publisher is all set to release book by a Pakistani tribal woman Mukhtaran Mai, who was paraded naked after being gang......

Cherchez les bureaucrats

No matter what America's politicians and generals are saying now, it is evident that Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's shock-and-awe theory envisioned one combat division coolly strolling into......

Chennai Open 2008 launched

Amidst the shadow cast by gambling and match-fixing charges rocking the world of professional tennis, Chennai Open 2008, one of the three ATP season openers, was launchedin the Tamil Nadu capital......