Congress Crimes circa 2013
The last ten years of the Congress-led UPA has been disastrous for the country. Every passing year has been more catastrophic than the previous one. 2013 has witnessed newer scams tumbling out of the government’s corrupt cupboard, barefaced misuse of constitutional institutions to target political adversaries, mindless squandering of public money More...
AAP’s opportunism and Congress decadence
Not very long ago, when the Yankees were witnessing a great economic upsurge and the basic infrastructure was being put in place to act as the harbinger for increased American effort, a particular rail and road More...
Decoding the Aam Aadmi Party
By any reckoning, Arvind Kejriwal’s rise is astounding. One year in politics, and he is chief minister of the Delhi state. As I mentioned in an earlier article, he has blasted many a myth about Indian politics More...
Pope Francis: an eyewash or a new beginning?
The office of the Pope is inarguably one of the most influential in the world. His words and actions have an effect on not only the ardent followers of the Catholic Church but also on millions of non-Christians More...
Stopping Modi at all costs
A US decision has evidently reaffirmed that Narendra Modi cannot be allowed to become prime minister of India. This is similar to the verdict reached on the elected President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi. The US simply More...
Digvijaya Singh didn’t receive request for help from Modi
Assertion On 22 October 2013, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Digvijaya Singh in a reply to a Twitter user, @mukeshgupta26 claimed the following (click the graphic below for a larger view): Digvijaya Singh’s More...
Congress Crimes 2: Nehru dynasty and National Suicide
The kindest description of Jawaharlal Nehru’s politics is that he was ambitious, but also a dupe. His thinking was imbued with all the half-baked prejudices of an interwar Europe in disarray and wracked by self-doubt, More...
Narendra Modi didn’t visit riot victims for 35 days
Assertion: National spokesperson of the Congress party Sanjay Jha in a Tweet on 2 November 2013 claimed as follows: . Facts Communal riots erupted in Gujarat after 59 innocent Kar Sevaks were burnt alive in the More...
NCERT textbook falsifies Gujarat riot numbers
Instance The NCERT Class XI textbook entitled Political Theory in a chapter on Secularism (Chapter 8, page 112), makes the following statement with respect to the Gujarat riots (emphasis added): Nearly two thousand More...
The political economy of underpaid wages
Social media commentators in the US, Europe and including a shocking number of Anglicised Indians, are spewing racist venom against Devyani Khobragade for allegedly exploiting her maid. It turns out that Devyani More...