Congress Party member Mani Shankar Aiyar said recently in a meeting that “India is prospering, Indians are not”. He added “GDP growth rate is no index of what is happening in our country”. He criticized the Indian government (which is lead by his own party) and questioned the governments economic policy. There is no debate [...]
In India as in most countries in the world there is a tendency to look back at history in a different light as time goes by. This is human nature. We judge the past based on today’s standards. Many of the people whom we judge, their friends, family members or associates are not alive to [...]
There is an ongoing debate in most Western countries about whether or not they should allow Muslim women to wear the Burqas in public. The most intense debate is going on in France where there is a parliamentary commission that is holding six months of hearing to decide whether or not a law banning Muslim [...]
The United Nations came into existence in 1945. There are currently 192 member states that are part of the United Nations. The UN’s annual budget is approximately 4 billion dollars. The UN is financed by a combination of assessed and voluntary contribution from all its
