Saswat Routroy

The 2001 Bollywood flick ‘Nayak’ showed how a common man becomes the Chief Minister of a state and almost cleanses the entire corrupt machinery of the state in just 1 day. The movie was quite impractical but enjoyable nonetheless....

While writing this article on January 29th, I wonder what we have achieved in these 70years of independence. India has become a country where police and administration was busy providing security to moviegoers, as a 16-year-old patriot teenager was...

Meet Jogendranath Mandal, Pakistan’s first Minister or Law and Labour. He was Pakistan’s second Minister of Commonwealth and Kashmir Affairs. Mohammad Ali Jinnah personally handpicked the Hindu Jogendranath Mandal for his loyalty towards Muslim League. This man belonged to the...

At the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2018 the Assam BJP government brought a new gift for the people of Assam on the New Years Eve. With this, the Assam government made it clear that they are serious...

Freedom of Speech (FoS) and Freedom of Expression (FoE). These two are not just mere phrases but are probably the most powerful representations of highest form of liberty that a democratic country gives to its citizens. FoS and FoE...

In the year 1999, India witnessed another betrayal from Pakistan. During the days of the Kargil war, a Bollywood movie eloquently depicted the cross-border terrorism carried out by our neighbor Pakistan and created new history in Indian cinema. The...

With the Modi-led BJP getting a clear majority in the recent Gujarat Assembly election, the opposition political parties have left no-stones-unturned to call it a failure of BJP because the party fell short of its previous tally in Gujarat....

Yesterday, I was watching the trailer of the serial “Porus” which is aired on the Sony Entertainment Television. I was surprised to see the makers showed Alexander in clothes instead of showing him naked. The Hellenistic era, which is...

Know O readers, that between the years when Mankind’s first scriptures were chronicled and the western sea drank the glorious cities of Dwaraka, there was an age undreamed of when shining kingdoms lay spread across Bharata like blue mantle...

Rape- it is the greatest assault that can happen to the dignity of a woman, both physically and mentally. If rape is a social disease, then the society seems to find no permanent cure. Rape is a much sensitive...

During his Uttar Pradesh visit, on the eve of Vijaya Dashami in 2016, Narendra Modi ended his speech with the auspicious chant of “Jai Shri Ram”. The secular politicians got alarmed and accused him of communalizing the UP election. One of...

“Gharwapsi”- a re-conversion program undertaken by Hindu outfits like Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal became a huge topic of controversy in 2015. The main objective of the program was to bring those Hindus back to Hinduism who were...