Narendra Modi’s visa denial still an unhealed wound
Narendra Modi’s thumping electoral victory and his ascension as Prime Minister has evoked all kinds of reactions across the world—the reactions fall in the broad gamut between “how could this happen?” to “who is this guy?” But given its preeminent status as the lone superpower, the reactions from the United States merit a deeper examination More...
Sonia Gandhi’s NGO regime exposed
That sundry activists indulge in anti-national activities has been the theme of a large number of articles that I posted on this website. A news story in The Indian Express (June 7, 2014) has confirmed, if any More...
The secular rapes of Badaun
There is a danger in turning incidental criminal acts into grand narratives about society. The New York Times made this point in cautioning against creating broad narratives of society based on the misogynistic More...
Ambedkar: a dispassionate assessment
I would like to share my individual and personal views on Ambedkar, a path breaker and rebel iconoclast I have tremendous regard for. This said, he perhaps needs to be also viewed through a prism that has been sidestepped More...
ISI hand in the Maoist insurgency to subvert India
Now that the crony-Islamic regime of the UPA has been defeated electorally and booted out of power lock stock and barrel, it’s time to decode certain murky political developments during last 10 years. Tracing More...
The Economist’s explanation is rooted in hubris and Hinduphobia
On June 1, the Economist “explains” as to “Why and how we make election endorsements.” First, it is not an explanation of any sort. It is the crudest display of an arrogant and garrulous More...
Nationalism as a misstatement of Hindu concerns
Time and again, also after Narendra Modi’s historic election victory, we see a correct pro-Hindu message take an erroneous nationalist turn which detracts from its original pro-Hindu intention. This is precisely More...
Narendra Modi should scrap Section 66-A
The evil that men do lives after them, said Antony in Julius Caesar, but the good is oft interred with their bones. Thankfully, what is true about men is not true about regimes. The Congress-led United Progressive More...
Heralding a Post-Congress India
Arun Shourie in a recent interview to NDTV has perhaps best captured the agenda for the newly-elected Government led Narendra Modi. He simply said: “Modi would like to succeed as a builder of modern India.” More...
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 More...