The Young India

Ananth Venkatesh

Standalone story. You may like to read ‘The Case for Israel’ by the same author.

The Palestinians today have to accept certain ground realities. They refused to share their land with the Jews in 1947. The Palestinians have no land for themselves even now. Palestinian leadership has to discontinue making unrealistic demands such as to accommodate refugees from the 1948 war.

Israel can’t accommodate the descendants of the Palestinian refugees from the 1948 War. It isn’t a feasible demand. That will …

Ananth Venkatesh

“Undue reliance on tranquil international diplomacy and forceless intranational diplomacy can backfire badly, thereby humiliating the national ego.”

The monstrosity of terrorists demonstrated by the recent bloodletting in Pune [Photo: top; source] illustrates the deviousness of Islamist fundamentalism. The blameless victims of the blast at a popular store of bakery in Pune are the latest in the enormous list of unfortunate Indians who have been wolfed by Islamist bigots.

India is a nation that has juddered continually due to the remorseless personality …

Kartikey Sehgal

Aman Ki Asha (AKA) is the new romantic buzzword between India and Pakistan formulated by mostly those people who have not suffered terrorist attacks and have their family and limbs intact. The movement, historic, has been celebrated by a 20 hour gun salute in Srinagar with instructions on laying the table and selecting the dishes coming directly from Pakistan.

According to this new peace movement, artists from India and Pakistan will get together and sing songs that were hitherto unreleased because they found …