The Young India

Ananth Venkatesh

The slaying of the international terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, and the liquidation of his confederates by the American Special Forces have ceased a gory chapter of Islamic terrorism. Osama was a vile terrorist, whose ideology was responsible for the engenderment of a slew of young Muslim terrorists globally. One interesting facet of Osama is that his blood-spattered fundamentalism disseminated through the Muslim world because of his monetary assets and apparent charismatic persona.

The American military intervention in Afghanistan in the 1980s to uproot …

Kartikey Sehgal

Victory is not always important. The sense of victory, is.

The confidence that you have won, whether you really have or not. Symbolism matters.

So America lost on 9/11. When some countries celebrated the attacks and America raged. Americans cheered when America got back at the Al-Qaeda but then they were stopped. America was not expected to be unreasonable. Though only a symbolic victory was needed, in the eyes of critics, the actual victory became important. It was important to bring results. The …

Ananth Venkatesh

Terrorism, a poison that has historically maimed a plenteous number of blameless Indians, rocked India once more for nearly 3 days. Mumbai’s Taj Hotel, a legendary symbol of architectural splendour, was targeted by Islamic bigots. The Oberoi-Trident was also brutalised by the bloody insaneness of the terrorists. Mumbai, familiar with such bigotry, had to endure the chilling ramifications of another intelligence blunder and the ineptitude of the law-enforcement machinery.

Despite her loss, Hillary Clinton’s candidature was significant.
Ananth Venkatesh calls it “a measure of the matureness of American democracy and its steady evolution”.

He states clearly the reasons for which American women were suppressed and prevented from the democratic freedom enjoyed by men.

Ananth Venkatesh tells us why Benazir Bhutto was important for the world, for India and for women rights.