85 South Asian films screened at the 17th NYIFF
NEW YORK (TIP): The 17th annual New York Indian Film Festival is a celebration of off-the-track movies produced in South…
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Panjab University, Chandigarh Professor Emeritus Padma Shri Harkishan Singh
Prof Harkishan Singh is a well-known pharmaceutical academic, prominent medicinal chemist and renowned science historian. On being asked for his…
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Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Amla juice found unfit for consumption and removed from India’s Defense Canteens
Patanjali products have failed tests earlier, too NEW YORK (TIP): The Economic Times has reported that the Indian Ministry of…
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French elections: At the crossroads
French voters have defied predictions time and again. In 1995, Jacques Chirac, a Gaullist conservative who had been trailing in…
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Trump’s first hundred days; Democratic voices have slowed presidential recklessness down
The American presidency remains undoubtedly the most powerful office in the world. The man who sits in the Oval Office…
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Triple Talaq – myths and misperceptions
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has, in a recent meeting, decided on a code of conduct for divorce.…
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Sikhs Take out an Impressive Parade in New York City
NEW YORK (TIP): Despite some showers, Sikh men, women and children in thousands thronged New York City to participate in…
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A Fund Raiser for Health and Education
Gift of Life USA Involves Community in the gigantic task NEW YORK (TIP): Gift of Life USA Inc., a 501…
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Turban Day Celebrated At Times Square In New York
The iconic Times Square in New York was seeped in the colours and tradition of the Sikh culture as members…
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A Vaisakhi Soured: Sikh Guru Insulted
What could be more unfortunate than to find the Sikh Gurdwara managers taking to violence in the presence of Guru…
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Turning India into a land only for Hindus goes against our nation – Perspective
“We are a blended nation. Our long traditions, our languages, our home states, these cultural geographies have blurred and indistinct…
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The strange case of Kulbhushan Jadhav – As I See It
Perhaps the backdrop explains the dynamics at play more than just details of his incarceration “The fact that despite specific…
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Script to unlearn Kashmir begins with sad lessons
In the absence of any initiative to begin a dialogue process, separatists hone their skills to influence people There is…
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350th Birth Anniversary of Shri Guru Gobind Singh celebrated at the Indian Consulate
NEW YORK (TIP): The Indian American community and their friends from the mainstream came together to celebrate the 350th birth…
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At the crossroads — US, China, Pakistan — India has its hands full
“Jingoism may work for domestic electoral cycles, but can be dangerous internationally. Confronting the Sino-Pak combine, assuming Trump as a…
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Ambedkar’s last words of wisdom
In a speech to the Constituent Assembly in 1949, B.R. Ambedkar stressed on the need to have social democracy, and…
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Kulbushan Jadhav death sentence: Risky, ill-considered
Pakistan’s sudden announcement on Monday, April10, that former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav has been sentenced to death by a…
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Dr. V. K. Raju: Proud of Ancient Indian Medical Traditions
The inside walls of Dr. V. K. Raju's eye clinic in this picturesque town of Morgantown in West Virginia are…
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Reining in the Rogue Regime of North Korea
"Pyongyang's missile program has progressed over the last few decades from tactical rockets in the 1970s, to short, medium-range ballistic…
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Reforms Will Not Do India Any Good – Only A Revolution Will
The answers to our problems lie outside the system What form this revolution will take, and how much time, cannot…
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There is no holy cow in the Vedas
Hinduism considers the Vedas as its Supreme Court, whose word is final, and if any of the later Sanskrit or…
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Cow is an excuse – Rajasthan murder more than a vigilante action
Another vigilante action, another Muslim dead. This time in Rajasthan. But the beating of five persons transporting milch cows, leading…
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Rise of the anti-liberal order
“The issue confronting India, as indeed the entire Western world, is the rise of populist leaders challenging liberal, pro-globalisation post…
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It’s time airlines took a tough line against unruly VIP behavior
“Air rage" - or sudden and violent behavior by a passenger affecting those who work on flights or associated people…
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An expansive Hindutva agenda?
The Hindutva project has succeeded in projecting itself as speaking to the deep diversities that crowd U.P “The invocation of…
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ASHOKA THE GREAT & PRINCIPLES OF CO-EXISTENCE
HG Wells, the British author, a contemporary of Bernard Shaw and GK Chesterton, wrote in his, Outline of History: "Amid tens…
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PREJUDICE MAKES NO DISTINCTION
It's time Indian-Americans in the U.S. involved themselves deeply in civic issues. Srinivas Kuchibhotla in Kansas, Harnish Patel in South…
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Sikhs should think of partying to celebrate Vaisakhi
Why not we do any festival parties, as Christians do Christmas parties, Muslims do Iftar parties and Hindus do Diwali…
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Congress needs a winning strategy ‘Captain Model’ may work
Captain Amarinder Singh is often referred to as 'Raja' for his authoritarian style and imposing mannerism dealing with complex issues…
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Trump-Russia investigation erodes the U.S. President’s credibility
The first open hearing into the alleged links between the campaign of Donald Trump and unnamed parties associated with the…
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