Vasant G. Gandhi

Indian activist Anna Hazare seems to demand two things: one, Lokpal, a commissioner for investigating and prosecuting government officials allegedly involved in corruption; two, Parliament enact his anti-corruption bill.

Emotions of anger and grief run deep in India following a terrorist attack on July 13, 2011, in which 20 people were killed and more than 130 others were injured. This was the fourth major attack in Mumbai in the last eight years.

The Indian Constitution Act of 2006 does not answer the following two questions: What are the functions of a Prime Minister? Is there a method which shows how to remove the Prime Minister from the office?

What a shame that India is at the top on a list of nations with black money! And here are the whys and wherefores of black money, and how to unearth it.

They have hundreds of thousands of followers in India, and their current activities are inking newspapers, filling airwaves, and storing gigabytes.  They are Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and social worker Kisan Baburao Hazare, fondly called Anna.

Several newspapers reported that a few prison inmates, each serving life sentence for killing and murdering, have brutally killed one more person inside the jail: Dr. Buddhadev Singh.

Now that the United States completed the operation of finding and killing of Osama bin Laden, a master behind the death of 2976 innocent people in New York, including 236 foreigners, on 11 September 2001, many in America are asking whether Pakistan knew if bin Laden was hiding in her backyard.

Recently, an Indian leader fasted – abstained from food – to end the pervasive practices of bribery in India.  This raises two questions: one, how effective is the tool called fast in ending the corruption, and second, how does one minimize, if not eliminate, corruption.

Japan suffered three devastating blows, one after another: an earthquake tore her first, then a tsunami, and then a nuclear power station.  Now, this gentle and generous nation is left with too many broken pieces, too many missing lives, and too many mourners.

The recent turmoil in diktat nations across the Middle East and northern Africa has caught the attention of rulers and ruled around the world.  People in this region are gathering in masses to express their frustrations and anger, and are revolting against their leaders.