Book Excerpt: Narendra Modi- The Game Changer
Narendra Modi was attending the funeral of photo journalist Gopal Bisht of Aaj Tak news channel in Delhi. It was 2 October 2001. Just a day before, Madhavrao Scindia* had died in a private plane crash along with special correspondent Ranjan Jha of Aaj Tak, Sanjeev Sinha of The Indian Express and Anju Sharma of The Hindustan Times. The entire More...
What stops me from speaking my mind- a common man’s open letter to Rama Guha
Dear Mr Guha, Even though I cannot claim to be your fan, or even someone who follows your writings seriously, I cannot help, but notice some similarities between us. Like you, I too have been a lifelong cricket More...
Manoharlal Sharma’s plea to Stop Pampering Kashmiri Separatists is an historic NIL
Advocate Manoharlal Sharma’s plea in the country’s apex court to stop the bountiful spending from the national exchequer on the separatist groups in the Kashmir Valley (see the list of top six separatists at More...
Civilizational Conflict: An analysis using Game Theory
To fully understand the conflict between civilizations, it is necessary to understand how conflict occurs between the two groups. When two or more groups exist in close spatial proximity to each other, a number More...
Is BJP Hampering Hindu Revival?
Two years have passed, since the so called Hindu Nationalist Party, the BJP was elected with a whopping majority to the lower house of the Parliament, the Loka Sabha. The BJP was successful in creating an atmosphere More...
Media, lies and searches on Sindhu’s caste
With PV Sindhu’s silver medal in the Olympics, trust the media to be searching for an “idea of India” angle. Nothing gets the idea-of-India wallahs going as much as caste. So, The NewsMinute (TNM) ran an article, More...
Modi Shuns Velvet Glove For An Iron One On The K-Issue
Prime Minister Modi has announced a tectonic shift in the structure of India’s dealing with Pakistan on the Kashmir issue. Instead of pussyfooting with lunches and bear hugs, which have brought us only a thousand More...
Eight reasons why the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ is already upon us
We are witnessing one horrific terrorist attack after another the world over and it shows absolutely no signs of stopping. Since 2015, there seems to be at least one incident in Europe every month. In 1993, American More...
How Scroll.in is part of Omidyar’s Breaking India Network
[contextly_sidebar id=”kGUimsh7QzG4xPoBbePVIdQLR5xwcjxs”] Scroll.in raises millions of dollars from Omidyar Network On March 19, 2013 The Times of India reported that the US based philanthropic venture More...
Thou Shalt Not Comment : The Dictatorship of scroll.in
[contextly_sidebar id=”QRYDs6o13ML78jc1WShLQ5e3S8WXGROd”] In January 2013, a small obscure web portal was started; a digital daily in the scroll format, where new posts are just stacked over one another More...