Latest postings by Shivraj Asthana
Once again India is rocked by the horrific news of the brutal rape that went in for hours in a moving bus in the capital city of the country ...more>>
The two massive grid failures, coming within two days of each other, made news all over the world. The scale of failure with the ensuing str ...more>>
Last few weeks have been quite volatile for Team Anna and for the movement for eradicating corruption in India. First the movement fell deep ...more>>
The year was 1995. Adityapur Industrial Area (next to Tatanagar, the oldest Steel City, 300 miles west of Kolkata) was choking on an old agi ...more>>
Big cracks have started appearing in Team Anna. In the last one week two prominent members of the team were physically attacked – Prashant ...more>>
Anna Hazare is turning his focus on upcoming elections. He has declared that, if the government fails to pass his Jan Lokpal Bil ...more>>
Narayan Murthy created a firestorm just a few days ago, when he lamented about the poor quality of students entering IIT. He put the blame s ...more>>
North East India and Nepal suffered their worst earthquake till date, in 1934, a tremblor registering 8.4 on the Richter scale. It claimed a ...more>>
Perceptions often cloud our judgment, and sometimes, blow things out of proportion. Before we look at why most Indians believe that we ...more>>
The terrorist attack outside the High Court, New Delhi, once again exposed our vulnerability to acts of terrorism. A brief look at the histo ...more>>
The origin of attitude towards corruption in modern India is not very far below the surface.
Some of you may have heard or (better still) r ...more>>
It was 3 days after Deepawli (the day celeberated as Lord Ram's homecoming after defeating the evil forces), on Nov 5, 1974 that Jayaprakash ...more>>
Yesterday British Prime Minister David Cameron blamed Facebook and Twitter for the recent spate of riots in London and other cities.
"Free ...more>>
Yesterday I read a touching story about a Flying Officer of Pakistan Air Force offering his heartfelt condolences to the famility of an Indi ...more>>
This common proposition about lessons of history is hard to accept, given the bomb blasts that ripped through the crowded areas of the megap ...more>>
