Butchered in Bihar: A View from the Outside
After being decimated in Delhi and fallen short in Kashmir, the BJP has now been butchered in Bihar. Maybe a mauling awaits it in the coming Maharashtra civic polls. The question I want to raise here is very simple: what does this election tell us about the Indian polity? The first thing the political pundits will want to do is to apportion blame. More...
Narendra Modi: The Man Who Bounces Back
Indian politics has always been loaded in favour of the dynasty or those with money and muscle power. On top of that the RSS was an outright pariah a long time after Independence and till 1977, no party other than More...
A Confused Journo’s Posthumous Interviews: (1) The Politician
[contextly_sidebar id=”9Ft6fQQ7M0Vf77lGpIr5m42xa7iRaWXN”] IndiaFacts regrets to announce the tragic death of Mr. Akulita Sandeha, a young and promising journalist whose body was found three days ago More...
Towards a New Cosmopolitan Muslim Mindset
During one of my recent summer trips to India, an incident in the Mewat region of Haryana reported in a local newspaper caught my attention. A road accident had escalated into a communal riot between Muslims and More...
Why is the Media Silent on Pachauri?
In the din of award waapsi and intolerance debates, a young girl who was fighting a case of sexual harassment against a well-known figure quit her job. The well-known person is none other than Rajendra Pachauri– More...
How the Congress Manufactures Intolerance
Preface With the early winter march to Rashtrapati Bhawan on Tuesday, Congress wielded its brahmastra on a government elected with a huge popular mandate. Leading from the front was the President and Former De facto More...
Aurangzeb: A Life of Tolerance
I am no scholar of history but I know my Indian history fairly well. Given the currently prevailing atmosphere of intolerance in India, this would be a good time to set the record straight by remembering and recalling More...
Decoding the Habits of the One-Eyed Intellectual
If India were an animal farm, it has been encroached by a class of one-eyed animals, who are better educated and have given themselves awards, live in comfortable homes, drink bottled water, and infest our television More...
Award Returnees Dislike Indian Voters
The swelling outpouring of angst about alleged calamities being visited by Narendra Modi on India are unlikely to be coordinated, but clearly each one is inciting others. This is a bemusing puzzle. The fact of the More...
Something Went Wrong with You? Just blame Modi
Here’s how to do it. In the past if any Nehru-Gandhi dynast or any of his or her confidantes did something dastardly, then the entire #AdarshLiberal crowd would simply look the other way as they are trained to. More...