A Bridge Too Far: Nitish Kumar’s PM Aspirations For 2019
Anyone remotely connected with the marketing of products has heard “sell the sizzle not the steak”. For the uninitiated, it simply means you sell the customers what they want, not what they need. After the general More...
Is BJP Failing PM Modi?
Though BJP is the largest political party in India, it has lost touch with its core supporters. BJP has failed to assess ground situations and counter manufactured agenda against the Modi Sarkar. BJP in its present More...
False equivalence to hide self loathing by Ram Guha
I had a colleague once who hailed from a small village and whose father was an average farmer. The father worked hard to put his son through school and good engineering college. The son got a good job and like many More...
Intolerance Of The Left: A Brief Laundry List
Among others, CPM leaders Mohammad Salim and Sitaram Yechury have recently spoke of the’Intolerant BJP’ in the Parliament. Yet, the documented reality is the fact that the Left–including his More...
Acchhe Din Are Already Here
Jawaharlal Nehru ruled as Prime Minister from 1947-64 and laid such amazing economic foundations that we went bankrupt in 1991. His daughter Indira Gandhi comes second in the number of years ruled and has the worst More...
Why the BJP Lost Bihar?
Many think that Modi and the BJP lost Bihar because the RSS chief made a confusing comment on the issue of Reservation Policy. Many attribute this statement was based on motives of internal warfare within the Sangh More...
Bihar Debacle: The Way Forward for the BJP
About two years ago, the Bharatiya Janata Party was not even a serious opposition in the nation’s politics. One of the perceptions was that it was acting like the B-team of the Congress, notably supporting More...
Examining the Marxist Version of India’s Past
The 18 September 2015 print edition of the Marxist fortnightly Frontline cover story was a detailed interview of Marxist historian Romila Thapar conducted by Ranabir Chakravarti, Professor of Ancient History at More...
Census 2011 and the Hindu Family
The recent release of the Census 2011 report has caused much concern among Hindus. Both the UPA and the NDA governments had delayed releasing the Census 2011 report for reasons unknown. Equally, the growth rate More...
Media Hypocrisy over Dadri
What just happened in Dadri is very tragic, if you go by the media reports. A Muslim man was dragged out of his house and lynched by an enraged Hindu mob because he and his family were suspected of eating beef in More...