Myanmar retaliation: Modi’s finest hour
The unprecedented surgical strike inside Myanmar by the special forces of the Indian Army will go a long way asserting India’s right to safeguard its interest in south Asia. The elite commandoes liquidated about 20 insurgents of the groups that had ambushed and killed our 18 soldiers in Manipur a few days ago. That this was done without any casualties More...
Manipur: History, politics and faultlines
Manipur is one of the Seven Sister states of India. The Seven Sisters, of the North-eastern states as they are collectively called, are a miniature India, with ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity, with faultlines More...
Yoga has a religion: it is Hinduism
My immediate response to the assertion that ‘Yoga has no religion’ is a flat denial. Because I know Yoga, Yoga is a friend of mine and I can truthfully attest to the fact that Yoga does indeed have a religion. More...
Introspecting Operation Bluestar
Certain tragedies that befell our country are very difficult to forget; one such incident was the controversial and destructive ‘Operation Bluestar’ – a military operation in 1984 – to flush out Sikh militants More...
Maggi, Maruti, Mandal and Mandir: the dying 80s brands in the Modi era
On a trip to Mexico in 1982, India’s then Information and Broadcasting minister, Vasant Sathe discovered a communication strategy developed by Miguel Sabido of producing “telenovelas” (soap operas of the socialist More...
Dear APSC worthies: Here is what Ambedkar really said
In the wake of the recent IIT Madras controversy, we are witnessing the unfortunate phenomenon of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s august name being dragged in for petty political gains—from the Nehru-Gandhi scion of the More...
West Bengal: the Enemy Within
Both before and since Independence, Marxists viewed radical Islam as a natural ally in Indian subcontinent thereby nurturinga sense of hatredand alienation among the Muslims of Bengal. This propaganda benefitted More...
Land Acquisition Bill: the core issues
The government’s effort to bring amendments to the land acquisition Act of 2013 has caused such political rancour that it has become difficult to form an unbiased assessment of the issues involved. The government More...
Temstula, the action hero of the Ganga Ghats says she is not done yet!
On the occasion of Ganga Dussehra, 2000 diyas (lamps) lit up the Babua Pandey Ghat making it a sight to behold. Some months ago, this sight would seem impossible to even imagine! So how did a ghat that reeked in More...
Savarkar and Modi, beginning and end of Hindutva
Hate mongers Hate mongers often need concocted stories to buttress their political message. In India, these are most common in that peculiar Indian form of hatred: anti-Brahminism. As the local counterpart to what More...