The Lalit Modi-Sushma-Raje Saga – Lessons for the BJP
For two weeks now, prime time TV debates have revolved around Lalit Modi (LM) and his politician friends. A Sunday Times London report referred to Sushma Swaraj’s assistance to LM. The ball then moved at rocket More...
The Congress today has become an impediment to reform
As we pass completing one year of the Modi administration, it is a matter of interest to record how negative the media has been of the Modi government despite the fact that few would doubt either its reformist credentials More...
2019 and beyond: Narendra Modi has laid the foundations for a long-term BJP Government
Everyone has their opinions on how the Narendra Modi government has performed in this past one year. Or not performed. However, my reading of the Modi government’s performance over this one year is straight from More...
One year of the Narendra Modi Government: An assessment
Last year’s General Election was a mandate for hope, and the promise of a truly post-Congress India, shown by just one man: Narendra Modi. The current Prime Minister rode to power on the back of his image as a More...
Time to Hold India’s Media Legally Accountable
This is an excerpt from one of my books titled, ‘Orissa in the Crossfire – Kandhamal Burning.’ This is the same book that the Indian Parliamentarian and Congress Party leader Digvijaya Singh demanded be More...
Census 2011 and the Demographic threat
The New Delhi edition of the Times of India of 22 January 2015 had published a news report of highly doubtful veracity proclaiming that according to the 2011 Census, the Muslim population in India had grown by More...
Hindus are on the Hit List
If you are a Christian, don’t read this. You might feel ashamed of your community’s leaders. If you are a journalist, read it only if you have an open mind and your pocket is not lined by NGO and similar funds. More...
It’s all your fault Mr. Narendra Modi
Dear Sri Narendra Modi, We, the great middle class of this country voted for you. Overwhelmingly voted for you. Gave your party its biggest ever mandate. We trusted you with our destiny. We also laboured hard to More...
Dealing with the English Media
It is the considered opinion of those to the right of centre (RofC) – the full spectrum from just to the right to what is called the looney fringe – that the mainstream media, particularly the English variety More...
The United Minorities Challenge before the Modi Government
The United Minorities are waging a no-holds-barred campaign against Narendra Modi or against whomever is or can be pictured as a pro-Hindu power-wielder. One of their lines of attack is the blackening of the ruling More...