February Month Article

• Limits of freedom - Autonomy for universities does not make them liberated zones
  • Swapan Dasgupta
    Among the unintended consequences of the storm over the separatist slogans chanted in Jawaharlal Nehru University has been the reinforcement of stereotypes.............

• Fact Sheet on the JNU Mahishasura Day Controversy
  • Abhinav Prakash
    On 14 October, the Press release of Asian Human Rights Commission titled “INDIA: Raid of Forward Press office is attack on freedom of expression.............

• A Fact-Check on The Telegraph’s “Fact-Check” regarding Smriti Irani’s speech
  • Opindia.com
    A regional newspaper that has confused itself as a national tabloid called the “The Telegraph” has recently come into the limelight.............

• Open Letter to Barkha Dutt from a Social Media Sanghi communal troll
  • Opindia.com
    I write to you because like so many fellow citizens, I am both angry and anguished. I am aware that a missive from someone like me............

• PCPA strikes terror in Jhargram
  • The Times of India
    Exactly 10 days after the heinous Jnaneswari Express sabotage, the Maoist-backed PCPA militia unleashed terror again on Saturday night............

• JNU row: Delhi University teachers' group writes to President against ‘anti-national’ slogans
  • The Times of India
    A group of teachers of the Delhi University have written to the President against the reported 'anti-national' slogans raised at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)............

• Those Backing Afzal Guru Could Have Been Killed: Parliament Attack Case Judge
  • Sidharth Pandey, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh
    The judge who sentenced Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru to death has hit out at opposition members for backing students.............

• Lance Naik Hanamanthappa's Widow Wants Only Daughter To Join Army
  • NDTV.com
    Wife of Siachen soldier Hanamanthappa Koppad, Mahadevi Ashok Bilebal wants their only daughter to join the Indian Army when she grows up.............

• Gen. Malik, Please tell the nation what Barkha did at Kargil — Jay Bhattacharjee
  • Jay Bhattacharjee
    Jay Bhattacharjee writes an open letter to  former Army chief General Malik who led the army in 1999 during the Kargil war............

• Smriti Irani exposes the political games over Rohith Vemula
  • Hindupost.in
    In an impassioned speech in Lok Sabha packed with facts, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani gave a stunning reply............

• Full text: Smriti Irani's explosive speech in Lok Sabha on Rohith Vemula and JNU row
  • Nivedita Dash
    Here's the full text of Smriti Irani's Lok Sabha speech on Rohith Vemula and JNU row............

• France Weighs Limits of Liberty, Equality and Citizenship
  • Aurelien Breeden And Jeffrey Marcus
    The government in France wants to change the Constitution and pass a new law that would give the authorities greater powers to combat terrorism...........

• Crackdowns on Free Speech Rise Across a Europe Wary of Terror
  • Raphael Minder
    A puppet show at an open square in Madrid during Carnival festivities this month featured a policeman who tried to entrap a witch..........

• Meet NDTV’s Vishnu Som
  • Sudhirkumar
    Back in the year 2009, the Swiss government issued a ban on building minarets in their country. Quite expectedly..........

• Rajdeep didn’t declare Dawood a patriot, but he did give a “context” to his terrorism
  • OpIndia Editor
    In the wake of anti-India slogans raised by some men at JNU campus, controversial journalist Rajdeep Sardesai declared himself an “anti national” in an article..........

• Bihar doctors want guns to protect themselves from extortionists
  • Giridhar Jha
    All the doctors in Saharsa went on indefinite strike from Monday night in protest against the delay...........

• Alok Nath on JNU row: Democracy doesn’t mean you abuse your country
  • Vaibhavi V Risbood, TNN
    Bolywood celebs have always been vocal about their thoughts when it comes to issues outside the industry...........

• JNU: India’s Unity And Division In The Name Of Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
    On the night of 9 February, when JNU students carrying posters of Afzal Guru raised slogans for the ‘Azadi’ of Kashmir..........

• Would The US, Bastion Of Free Speech, Have Handled JNU Differently? Probably Not
  • Rupa Subramanya
    Should free expression allow for charged and inflammatory calls for the destruction of the Indian Union? In other words..........

• Guha Is Wrong. RSS Never Had Any Shade Of Doubt In Hoisting The Tricolour
  • Aravindan Neelakandan
    Suddenly the national Tricolour and the RSS loyalty to it have been brought back into the center stage of controversy..........

• Delhi schools run by non-minorities lose all admissions autonomy under media coverfire of lies and deceit
  • Realitycheck.wordpress.com
    After going through the endless debates and essays I find that nationalism has been discussed at length but India’s security has not come up for much debate.........

• It is not about nationalism but India’s national security
  • Ashali Varma
    After going through the endless debates and essays I find that nationalism has been discussed at length but India’s security has not come up for much debate.........

• Open Letter to Barkha Dutt from a Social Media Sanghi communal troll
  • Opindia.com
    I write to you because like so many fellow citizens, I am both angry and anguished. I am aware that a missive from someone like me .........

• Lies, manipulations, insults – What Indian media gives to our Army
  • Opindia.com
    NDTV is known to be a master of spin, lies and deceit. Yesterday NDTV went on to use a martyred soldier to make a political point, that too by misrepresenting facts.S..........

• US couple’s petition in court blows lid off K.P.Yohannan’s multi-million dollar operations
  • Daily Indian Herald
    K.P.Yohannan, the self-proclaimed metropolitan of Believers’ Church, and the moving force behind a number of charity firms registered in the US..........

• Ancient Hindu temple in Peshawar being 'secretly' demolished, say locals
  • The Times of India
    An ancient Hindu temple in this northwestern Pakistani city is being demolished secretly in the name of repair with a commercial plaza set to come up on its land..........

• Jawaharlal Nehru University was never a bastion of open debate
  • Swapan Dasgupta
    During the course of the acrimonious exchanges over a series of incidents that originated in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University.........

• A freedom of contrasts, writes Raveena Tandon Thadani
  • Raveena Tandon Thadani
    Throughout school, most kids — at least I was one of them — were waiting to get out and get into a college.........

• Know the traitor JNU students who wants to bleed India- Expose them
  • Thelotpot.com
    Day before yesterday- Some students from the JNU in Delhi organised an event in the campus without any official permission and were glorifying......

• As soldiers fought terrorists, mosques nearby hailed mujahid
  • M Saleem Pandit, TNN
    A large swathe around the Pampore encounter site resounded with praise for 'mujahid'.......

• Stop glorifying martyrdom, India. It insults our heroes
  • Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor
    Let us honour those who lay down their lives by thanking them for their service, but never betraying an appetite for their deaths.......

• Kargil war the JNU students Union
  • Intellibriefs.blogspot.in
    In 1999, right in the middle of the Kargil war the JNU students Union arranged an Indo-Pak Mushaira. Three brothers Major K.K.Sharma, Major L.K.Sharma........

• An account of martyrs who lost their lives in Siachen
  • The Indian Express
    A look at the lives that the martyrs of last week’s Siachen avalanche led........

• On top of the world, looking down into the jaws of death
  • Col Shivaji Ranjan Ghosh
    An army man tells us what it's like to be posted at the daunting heights of Siachen........…..

• Messengers of god: Recalling the 2013 Siachen rescue operation
  • Man Aman Singh Chhina
    A pilot recounts one of the biggest rescues at Siachen, of two from a helicopter crash, in 2013.......…..

• Everyday is a story: Army officers recall their time at Siachen Glacier
  • Man Aman Singh Chhina
    At the highest battlefield in the world, the enemy is not so much an entity holding rifles and guns; it is nature, the isolation, your mind and your body.......…..

• Hanamanthappa’s six days of struggle at Siachen
  • Sushant Singh
    It was Hanumanthappa who got out the first radio message about the avalanche......…..

• Omar, Censor Board member in battle of tweets
  • Peerzada Ashiq
    Former Chief Minister and National Conference working president Omar Abdullah on Saturday.......…..

• JNU protests: If Afzal Guru a martyr, who is Koppad Hanumanthappa, asks Yogeshwar Dutt.
  • Upananda Brahmachari
    Star Indian Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt blasts ‘anti-nationals’ in patriotic poem.......…..

• Thousands 'March For Unity' In Delhi Against 'Anti-National Activities' At JNU
  • Rashmi Mann, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy
    Waving flags and banners, thousands of people took to streets in Delhi on Sunday in a march from Rajghat to Jantar Mantar against what they called "anti-national".......…..

• Bangladesh Hindu priest beheaded 'by Islamic State'
  • BBC.com
    The so-called Islamic State group has said it was behind the beheading of a senior Hindu priest and wounding two worshippers in northern Bangladesh.......…..

• Crisis in JNU is merely a symptom of a much deeper malaise
  • Kanchan Gupta
    The Left-liberal outrage and sanctimonious posturing at home and abroad notwithstanding, the idea is to fix a broken system that has been held hostage by the Left......…..

• March of the anti-India brigade
  • Anirban Ganguly
    The ‘constitutional patriotism' oozing intellectuals and historians who have only tried to understand India either ‘before' or ‘after' Mahatma Gandhi.....…..

• MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Vijender Singh ‘stand up’ for India and armed forces
  • Express Web Desk
    Cricketers MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir and Boxer Vijender Singh voice their opinion on Twitter in support of the armed forces.....…..

• JNU row: Retired soldiers lead ‘March for Unity’
  • Nikhil M Babu
    Led by ex-servicemen, participants in the march waved the tricolour as they walked from Rajghat to Jantar Mantar....…..

• In Chhattisgarh, PM Modi touches the feet of 104-yr-old woman who sold her goats to build toilets
  • The Times of India
    A 104-year-old woman from a village in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district who sold her goats for constructing toilets at her home....…..

• Here’s why JNU student’s explanation of anti India slogans is frivolous
  • The Male Factor
    In this Quora response a JNU student Harshit Agarwal who claims to be independent from the organizers....…..

• Media: Thy Name is Double Standard
  • Balbir Punj
    In the last four days, the media went overboard pressing all the juice out of the incidents in JNU and Hyderabad universities....…..

• 'Solidarity march' actually split the media wide open, made clear our hypocrisy
  • Shantanu Guha Ray
    On 16 February, journalists in Delhi, for a change, carried banners and wore black armbands in a solidarity march to highlight the vagaries of their profession...…..

• Government Needs To Be Supported On JNU
  • Praful Shankar
    The Indian government should protect its law abiding, peace loving common citizens rather than pampered, ...…..

• Banning the burqa
  • The Economist
    Why more countries are outlawing the full-face veil...…..

• While Dawood hides in Pakistan, nephew falls in US net for narco-terrorism
  • Ahmed Ali, TNN
    Dawood Ibrahim's nephew Sohail Kaskar, 36, has been caught in the US for conspiring to commit narcoterrorism...…..

• JNU- The fault line of marxist intellectualism
  • Rahul Narayan
    Nehru once said, “Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.” ...…..

• Open Letter to JNUites from a Social Science Researcher of IIT
  • Vinod
    Studying in the Humanities and Social Science department of IITs is tough in itself as you have to always justify your existence that what you are doing here ....…..

• JNU issue: If sedition laws must go away, so should our blasphemy laws!
  • Manithan
    Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) had gathered on the third anniversary of terrorist Afzal Guru’s execution ....…..

• An open letter to Rajdeep “I Am Anti National” Sardesai
  • Vivek Agnihotri
    It seriously doesn’t matter to me what’s your self-image: Nationalist or anti-nationalist. I don’t even care what people think about you....…..

• Congress Wanted To Implicate PM Modi In Ishrat Jehan Case: Venkaiah Naidu
  • NDTV.com
    Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today alleged that Congress wanted to "implicate" the then Gujarat ....…..

• Inside HAWS: Where heroes like Hanamanthappa learn to battle Siachen winds     
  • Shuja-ul-Haq @ShujaUH
    The institute trains the Army for hostile conditions so they can survive at altitudes higher than 13,000ft....…..

• How I, A Welder's Son, Got 1-Crore Job With Microsoft           
  • Vatsalya Chauhan
    I was always good at studies and had a keen interest in Maths. I used to study it myself. I was enrolled at a local government school....…..

• The amazing story of Sonam Post
  • Brigadier Narender Kumar
    Sonam Post, the site where 10 valiant soldiers (including three from Karnataka) of 19 Madras regiment lost their lives in an avalanche has been thrust into national limelight.....…..

• Despite its cries for freedom, JNU has disgraced free speech
  • Kanchan Gupta
    Any story is the sum total of many stories. So also the Jawaharlal Nehru University story that dominates media discourse emanating from Lutyens’s Delhi at the moment....…..

• The various ploys of defending JNU anti-nationals
  • Opindia.com
    First and foremost, congrats to the brave people who shouted slogans like “Bharat ki barbaadi”, “Pakistan Zindabad” “Kerala mange aazadi”, ...…..

• Kargil war the JNU students Union
  • IntelliBriefs.blogspot.in
    In 1999, right in the middle of the Kargil war the JNU students Union arranged an Indo-Pak Mushaira...…..

• Dear JNU Students, We Fund Your Studies, Not Your Politics
  • Mohandas Pai
    JNU has been a controversial university for quite some time. Professor Nurul Hasan, as HRD Minister, made sure that it became a bastion of the Left...…..

• How Pakistan subverts the Indian elite
  • Minhaz Merchant
    It's uncanny. After every terror attack on India from Pakistani soil, a rash of articles appears in Indian newspapers..…..

• Congress leader from Gujarat conspired to implicate Narendra Modi in Ishrat Jahan case: Ex-IB officer
  • Zee Media Bureau
    In a shot in the arm for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former Intelligence Bureau special director Rajinder Kumar on Saturday claimed..…..

• Siachen Tragedy: The Trauma Is Real, But It’s Vital To Our Interests
  • Syed Ata Hasnain
    In the early hours of 3 February, a major avalanche struck the Army post in Northern Siachen Glacier trapping 10 soldiers...…..

• Islamic State comes to Pakistan
  • Khaled Ahmed
    It’s here that the IS hopes to set up its sub-HQ, with help from powerful madrasas and clerics...…..

• Islamic State comes to Pakistan
  • Khaled Ahmed
    It’s here that the IS hopes to set up its sub-HQ, with help from powerful madrasas and clerics...…...

• Leftist Plot to Vitiate Academic Atmosphere and Malign the Nation
  • Dr. Bal Ram Singh
    Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is again in news for the wrong reason! This time an extremist group of leftist students are bent upon celebrating Afzal Guru as a martyr on the campus....…...

• Inside HAWS: Where heroes like Hanamanthappa learn to battle Siachen winds
  • Shuja-ul-Haq @ShujaUH
    The institute trains the Army for hostile conditions so they can survive at altitudes higher than 13,000ft...…...

• Muslim girls master Sanskrit in Bihar school
  • Abhinandan Mishra
    A Sanskrit high school running in the interiors of Bihar, has more than 85 Muslim girl students out of the 125 girls studying there...…...

• Post-Headley, How Will The Ishrat Jahan Lionisation Industry Twist The Tale?
  • Arihant Pawariya
    Don’t expect anything to change. The rot will continue. In media, in institutions, in public discourse. The only hope and saving grace is an educated...…...

• Proved: Congress party hates Modi more than a LeT terrorist
  • Ashali Varma
    David Headley’s statement that Ishrat Jahan was an LeT terrorist has been said before but today the Indian people know the truth...…...

• A Pseudo-Modern Assault On The Cultural Heritage Of Shani Shingnapur
  • Shantipriya Arnal
    Strange that intellectuals, NGOs and even Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis encourages the assault of activism on the local village community in Shingnapur..…...

• Shani Shingnapur Controversy – Discrimination or Discretion?
  • Isha.Sadhguru.org
    In this week’s Spot, Sadhguru gives his view on the current controversy about the Shani Shingnapur temple..…...

• Body cremated on panchayat office premises
  • K J Francis Joy
    The residents of Kunnukara on Wednesday witnessed a unique cremation when the body of Kochomal, 85, a member of the scheduled caste community.…...

• Project ACRPR: Racial Profiling of Hindus
  • Pankaj Saxena
    Project ACRPR is nothing but an exercise of legitimizing and glorifying Islamic terrorists.…...

• Can we be honest about the motive of ISIS terrorists?
  • Maria Warth
    President Obama and other politicians worldwide steadfastly maintain that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam and most liberal non-Muslims share this opinion.…...

• I've Rescued Jawans At Siachen. You Never Forget It
  • Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Bahadur VM (retd.)
    The sad news of ten Army jawans being buried in an avalanche on the Siachen Glacier has once again highlighted the perils and challenges.…...

• 50 years on, lawyer yet to get over her circumcision trauma
  • Anahita Mukherji
    On Int'l Day Of Zero Tolerance For FGM, PIO Recalls Horror.…...

• The evolution of Kyani and Co.
  • Vidhi Choudhary
    The story of how the more innovative and adaptive of Indian businesses took on their famous foreign rivals after economic reforms were introduced.…...

• Five Reasons Why They Love Ishrat Jahan
  • Sunil Rajguru  @sunilrajguru
    It is sad that while our soldiers keep dying with great regularity in our proxy battle with Pakistan, #AdarshLiberals find so much love and sympathy for their very killers..…...

• We have enough proof to nail JNU students: Delhi police chief Bassi
  • Ananya Bhardwaj
    Delhi Police commissioner BS Bassi has said that he has enough photo and video evidence to prove sedition charges slapped against JNU students and that no innocent was being made to suffer.…...

• Jihadi Suspect: The Bhatkal man whom cops link to string of IS arrests
  • Johnson T A
    The whereabouts of Shafi Armar have not been known in recent times though he has been active on social media.…...

• Police probing radicalised teenager in Belgium find video of him and five Iraqi migrants gang-raping drunk girl who fell unconscious at a party
  • Simon Tomlinson
    Officers found vile footage on phone of boy suspected of radicalisation…...

• My Helicopter Crashed In Siachen Snow. How I Was Rescued
  • Group Captain Sundeep Mehta
    This narration is to bring perspective to survival and rescue efforts at elevations near 20,000 Feet Above Mean Sea Level.…...

• The ugly truth behind a ‘heartwarming’ story of Muslims performing a Kashmiri Pandit’s last rites
  • Rahul Pandita
    Every year, false stories are spread of solidarity among the Valley's communities. When will this charade stop?.…...

• TNTJ’s Anti Shirk Conference in Trichy declares ‘war’ against idol worship
  • Hindu Janajagruti Samiti
    Call of Islamic State fills the air of South India. Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath (TNTJ) vowed to end Idol worship.…...

• Has The BBC Urdu Become Another Madrassa?
  • Tufail Ahmad
    On January 30, the BBC Urdu Service carried an article by its Delhi-based correspondent Shakeel Akhtar which was titled..…...

• Did Veer Savarkar cut a deal with British at Kala Paani?
  • Omkar Patil
    The deal was to be released in exchange for not being subversive?..…...

• Cobra’s blood gives Maoist new lease of life
  • Rakesh K Singh
    Dispelling the notion that security forces kill all adversaries in a battlefield, the elite CoBRA battalion of the CRPF not only evacuated an injured Naxal...…...

• Violating the Freedom of Expression
  • Vinay Joshi
    Mr Albert Thyrniang’s article, “ Shillong RSS linked to Nazism and Fascism (ST Jan 29, 2016)” is an exercise in RSS bashing....…...

• ‘Left historians misled Muslims’
  • Kavita Nair-Fondekar
    Many Marxist academics who swear by freedom of speech and tolerance to contrary viewpoints...…...

• Towards Balkanisation, III: Missionaries
  • Varsha Bhosle
    On Wednesday, Tarlochan Singh, vice-chairman of the National Commission for Minorities, wrote to the presidents of the Catholic Bishops...…...

• Towards Balkanisation, Part II
  • Varsha Bhosle
    Responding to my previous essay, a furious "secularist" from West Bengal wrote, "nowhere did we come across the stuff you mentioned in the books. ...…...

• Towards Balkanisation, Part I
  • Varsha Bhosle
    On August 2, the Supreme Court heard Solicitor General Harish Salve read out...…...

• Son of ex-Major General held in Goa for ‘terror links’
  • Kautilya Singh & Murari Shetye, TNN
    A 44-year-old man from Dehradun who is being interrogated by the Anti-terrorist Squad (ATS) ...…...

• Agenda Setting - The Secret Recipe for Influencing Public Opinion
  • Suresh S Murthy
    Anyone who has been a witness to an election season is familiar how media plays a big role in shaping public opinion...…...

• 'Brainwashed', IAS officers in drier
  • Pranesh Sarkar
    Hirak Raja keeps rebellion at bay by using only one form of punishment: brainwashing..…...

• Assam Kamakhya Temple – Latest target of Government Takeover
  • Priyanka Roy
    The famed Kamakhya Temple in Assam – that is widely popular for its Shakti Shrine and is a must visit religious destination for all Hindus.…...

• The Nehruvian empire strikes back at Modi
  • Minhaz Merchant
    The Nehruvian consensus was rudely shattered by an arriviste called Narendra Modi.…...

• Battle for Sanskrit by Sri Rajiv Malhotra
  • Mahesh
    Thanks to Sri Guruvayurappan for sending this great video. Although I have heard his name, honestly, I haven’t been following him.…...

• Apex Body Of Hindu Sadhus Joins Battle For Sanskrit
  • Hindupost.in
    In a significant development, the Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad (ABAP)…...

• Top Lies spread by Indian Media in October 2015
  • Opindia.com
    1. 28 September 2015 – Hindustan Times: Modi changes clothes four times in a day…...

• BJP: University saw 9 Dalit suicides under UPA, where was Rahul then?
  • The Times of India
    Hours after Rahul Gandhi joined the protesting students of the University of Hyderabad for a daylong fast.…...

• Open letter to Rahul Gandhi
  • Dr Hilda Raja
    I feel sorry for you because you seem to know very little of India. You are 45 years old and I wonder when you are going to grow up. Imagine you waiting at the wings to become the Prime Minister of India.…...

• Don’t like this temple? Choose another
  • Madhu Purnima Kishwar
    The imperious missionaries of liberalism have no respect for the diversity of India’s belief systems.…...

• Campus Convulsion
  • Kumar Chellappan
    The recent spurt in student suicides shows up India with one of the world’s highest suicide rates in the age of 16-18. Kumar Chellappan.…...

• Faith and feminism in the days of power, arrogance and stupidity
  • Chitra Subramaniam
    Welcome to a land where demi-gods are feared more than gods.…...

• Meet the Gollas, Telangana's poor singing bards who spread folk wisdom
  • Aprameya Manthena
    Their practicising their caste occupation, sometimes unable to break away…...