The Bhattacharjee Chronicles – I: How to Take Over a Country and Reformat its Civilisation
Editor’s Note: A fortnightly summary and analysis of news and events that the mainstream media missed out on. This is the first instalment of the Chronicles. The author will do his best to keep the readers of More...
No, Judge Sahebs, Some of Your Pronouncements Outside the Courts Are Way Out of Line
Open letters have again become fashionable for the Lutyens Zone lot and the secularist stormtroopers, after the anti-CAA uproar engulfed the country in the last two months or so. This present effort of mine, however, More...
The Enemy Within the Gates – the Indian Republic Faces an Existential Threat
The wide-spread political agitation and violence that the country has seen in the last few days, after the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) 2019 by both houses of Parliament and its approval by More...
Many Indian Icons Are Ersatz– Why Do We Tolerate This Travesty?
This essay is prompted by my recent sighting of Sachin Tendulkar at the annual Air Force Day Parade and flypast earlier in the month. The experience was so galling and distasteful that I decided to put my thoughts More...
India Needs to Re-assess Donald Trump as a Suitable Partner and Icon
Recent events far from our shores are likely to have an existential and fundamental impact on India’s polity, national security environment, social framework and its ancient culture–cum-patrimony. The epicentre More...
Chief of Defence Staff- PM’s Welcome Initiative May Yet Be Stymied by the Babus
The Prime Minister’s announcement of the Government’s decision to implement a much-needed (and much-delayed) reform in the country’s defence management structure was welcome news indeed. The fact that he More...
India’s List of Untouchables: Getting Pruned Slowly but Surely in Recent Days
Some very important developments in the last few weeks have prompted me to think that the Indian list of untouchables and untouchabilities may be getting pruned after all these decades. Indeed, there springs a More...
No, Mr. Godrej, You Are Way Out of Line – This Just Won’t Do
A few days ago, Adi Godrej, one of the patriarchs of the well-known and respected Godrej business conglomerate stepped into a minefield when he launched a totally unnecessary salvo on socio-political issues that More...
Mr. President, It Is High Time That You Turfed Out the Mamata Regime in Bengal
The President of the Indian Republic must now do something that the country’s conscience enjoins and the Constitution and law demand – dismiss the utterly egregious, venal, violent and subversive state government More...
Controlling Disinformation And Agitprop – Lessons From A Tiny Democratic City State
For most professional Indians, the general perspective on Singapore ranges from the inanely adulatory stance about how nice and well-administered the city-state is (“clinically sterile” is a common phrase), More...