Narendra Modi and the Rajapaksa Controversy
Narendra Modi has invited the Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa to his swearing in ceremony. The Tamilnadu chief minister Jayalalitha and the LTTE sympathizer V. Gopalaswamy have expressed displeasure over it since Rajapaksa’s decisive military campaign against the LTTE resulted in the deaths of several innocent Eelam Tamils. Eelam Tamils More...
Civilizational tasks for the Narendra Modi Government
Introduction Let me start by thanking the many people who have tangibly helped me: with money, hospitality, logistical support, and information. No names here, firstly because it would be unfair to those I forget, More...
Epic parallels and symbols in the 2014 elections
Even before Narendra Modi’s evocative Ganga arti and his prostration before the steps of Parliament, this election was replete with symbols. While all sides attempted to use them to their advantage, the BJP turned More...
Narendra Modi: the first anti-Nehruvian Prime Minister
Some men, wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, are born posthumously. But some men also die posthumously: Jawaharlal Nehru belongs to this category. Biologically, he died on 27 May 1964, at the age of 74. But it was almost More...
Congress and AAP buried under their own slander
Press Council of India (PCI) chairperson Justice Markandey Katju once said that 90 per cent of Indians are “idiots.” It seems political parties, especially the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress could not More...
Narendra Modi’s challenge to Islam
Narendra Modi poses the greatest challenge to Islam since modern Turkey’s Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, perhaps an even greater one. This has been understood perfectly by adherents to the marginal Wahhabi sect that has More...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: the promise of a resurgent India
“Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very Heaven,” said William Wordsworth welcoming the fall of the ancient regime in France in 1789. Many of us heard it from Hiren Mukherjee, then an More...
Should Narendra Modi tolerate Sushma Swaraj’s tantrums?
Club 160 is at it again. L.K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Sushma Swaraj, et al. Sulking, sullen, upset—these are some of the words the media uses to describe their mood. Caught in a time warp, they refuse to acknowledge More...
Arvind Kejriwal is the real paid media
Nobody could have put this better than Sadanand Dhume (Twitter: @dhume) while summarising the results of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The only reason Dhume says this and not any of our celebrated journalists More...
Manmohan Singh: A spineless perjurer
Centre for National Renaissance president and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy famously compared Manmohan Singh with Bhishma of the Mahabharata. Like Bhishma, who did nothing to check the disrobing More...