Besides dangling before the US President George Bush Jr, the enticing prospects of the crude oil price plummeting to $12 per barrels once the US had invaded and occupied Iraqi oil fields, the Cabals in the Pentagon and the state department had also painted an equally fascinating picture of the entire Arab world blooming with democracy. But what actually followed is history.

Come June, every year, thousands of anxious and nervous students scramble to seek admissions in well-known colleges in Delhi in desired subjects.

In early 1960s, at my college, Syed Mubarak Ali, the Art teacher, and Devi Singh, physical training teacher, used to be served food in white porcelain plates at teachers’ lunches while others ate in b

Since the first Indian silent film, Raja Harishchandra, direc-ted by Dadasaheb Phalke in 1913, and the first talkie movie Alam Ara made in 1931, which had a four-minute-long kissing scenes (it would g

Syria is burning. Mayhem continues unabated. Major players are shadow boxing and pursuing their respective agendas. Innocent civilians are getting killed everyday; nearly 20,000 might have perished since March 2011. They have become mere pawns on the Chessboard for control of Syria.