Balbir Punj

Balbir Punj GG News Bureau New Delhi, 30th April. The recent gunning down of gangster turned politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf in police custody by three assailants and the resulting myriad reactions of various sections of the…

Balbir Punj GG News Bureau New Delhi, 30th April. One of the myths in circulation, at home and abroad is: Hindu-Muslim tensions have escalated in India following Modi’s ascend to power in 2014. Really? Were the ties between the two…

GG News Bureau New Delhi, 13th March. Many of us, who saw thousands of Amritpal’s supporters, some of them brandishing swords and guns, stomping through barricades and barging…

Merry Christmas to all the readers of this column. December 25 is celebrated as Christ’s birthday, the world over, both by Christians and non-Christians. It’s a global festival now- with massive celebrations, that include enormous lighting…

November 20 is one of the blackest days in Independent India’s chequered history. On this fateful day in 1962, China declared a unilateral cease-fire, bringing - one month one day long war against India - to an abrupt end. The war had left…

It was one poll whose result was never in doubt. With the so-called G23 leaders lined up behind him, family loyalist Mallikarjun Kharge's landslide win, over suave Shashi Tharoor, was a forgone conclusion. However, there are two important…

What to make out of the recent meeting between RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat, and some distinguished Muslims? While the traditional critics of the organisation are busy attributing motives and smelling something fishy in this initiative, several…

While the ‘left-liberal’ pack has hardly been done with BJP leader Nupur Sharma’s off the cuff remarks on Prophet Mohammad trope to feed Hindupobic gristmill, the recent communal disturbances in Leicester and Birmingham have provided them…

The nomenclature - ‘Bharat Jodo’ - preceding the ‘Yatra’, led by Rahul Gandhi, can hardly fool anyone- it’s a euphemism for an exercise to expand the shrinking footprint of Congress and retain it as a family pocket borough.

*Balbir Punj Mr. Hamid Ansari's rant against increasing "intolerance", and promotion of "disquiet and insecurity" among 20 percent of India's minority population at a recent global online event may have come as a shocker to the…