Himalayan Glaciers and Water Diplomacy

Reproduced from The Morung Express (Ref.)

World got the shocking revelations on Himalayan glaciers before Copenhagen climate summit of 2007, and as we headed toward Cancun Conference during the end of 2010, concerns did spread across many nations. Climate change in and around the Indo-Himalayan glacier systems raised many eyebrows. It what was first published in 2007 - Fourth Assessment Report of Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) set up by United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) pointing toward some factual observations.

The battle for Assam: To be or Not to be

Reproduced from The Morung Express (Ref.)

Towards the end of 2000 Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) realized the need of a national level alliance like many other smaller regional peers from the Sindhu (Indus) to the Sindhu (oceans).

Playin' Awry in Burari

Reproducing from The Morung Express (Ref.)

It was a similar scene in December 2006. Wounds of a recently lost Bihar, slippery slopes of Uttar Pradesh, coalition pressures and assembly elections in five states were knocking at the door. It was 82nd Congress Plenary session at Balayogi Stadium in Hyderabad.

Karkare Calling...

Reproducing from The Morung Express (Ref.)

Digvijay Singh did it again. Within mere a month after 26/11, a veteran Congress leader from Maharasthtra A.R Antulay raised the first vortex of controversies whirlpooling ATS officer Late Hemant Karkare’s death in it.

UN Security Council, India and the apartheid

Reproducing from The Morung Express (Ref:)


In mid-October this year when India, after 19 years, got elected as one of the temporary members of UN Security Council many in the diplomatic corners of Delhi started busying themselves up projecting it as a major triumph of their dedicated finesse.

Radiagate: Not just a scam in Indian media

Reproducing from The Morung Express (Ref.)


The synchronized display of conscious media brownout on Radiagate issue, since the Open Magazine exposed tapes or Outlook Magazine brought the transcripts of conversations between corporate lobbyist Ms. Nira Radia and prominent media professionals e.g. Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi

Ayodhya and nation: a retrospect

Time: 8:30 PM, 5th December, 1992
Place: A maidan in outskirts of Ayodhya on the bank of river Saryu (VHP later renamed this place as Karsevapuram)