Dialectics of Islamic terror
The recent Dhaka terror outrage is an illustration of the dangers, civilians face everywhere. No one is safe from terrorists prepared to commit suicide in carrying out attacks. Unfortunately, terrorism is proving More...
Award Returnees Dislike Indian Voters
The swelling outpouring of angst about alleged calamities being visited by Narendra Modi on India are unlikely to be coordinated, but clearly each one is inciting others. This is a bemusing puzzle. The fact of the More...
Integral Humanism of Deendayal Upadhyaya
It is a testament to Deendayal Upadhyaya’s foresight that much of what he suggested fifty years ago may seem unsurprising to many since it is now part of the established discourse of Hindutva. His four lectures More...
Lessons of the Indian Emergency
The history of India’s twenty one month Emergency is too well known to need detailed recounting. It began in June 1975, suspending civil liberties and allowed the government to rule by decree. In fact it ushered More...
Narendra Modi stands between India’s breakup
Even the highly educated elites of the USSR, with immeasurable historical experience of foreign invasions over centuries, failed to protect their country from chaotic rout. And it only took two decades for the successor More...
10 months of Narendra Modi Government: An Assessment
No government elected for a term of five years can be reasonably judged within its first ten months in office. But the clamour to judge has become irresistible and emphatic conclusions already drawn. Narendra Modi, More...
Do Indians prosper only abroad?
The idea that Indians do well abroad and are held back at home is an oft-repeated conviction in its city salons. Indeed the common man has also heard of glittering Indian successes abroad and suspects that all is More...
Unbridled Evangelism or the re-conquest of India
Introduction Religious conversion through evangelism has usually been aninstrument for states to gain control of other states. It has also been used to ensure the political loyalty of those living within their own More...
Colonial rants from Tavleen Singh
Tavleen Singh of the esteemed Indian Express, whose former editor’s modest reputation is irrecoverably tarnished by Wikileaks revelations, engaged recently in an abusive rant worthy of the worst colonial mindset More...
Indian foreign policy: a wake up call
Indians and their policy makers share a belief that they are ineffably decent people, who embody worthy moral values. This was clearly the basis for Nehru’s much-reviled, pompous self-righteousness. It was in More...