Failure of Communism in India
Communism is a political and economic ideology envisaging classless, government-controlled society with shared ideals of equality, class-less socio-economic hierarchy and extreme anti-elitism poured over by the More...
Lesson from Tiananmen Square: Communism is evil but India must reject Western narrative
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are often described in the left liberal media as a pro democracy popular movement that was brutally crushed by the Chinese communist government. The student-led protests kicked More...
Dangerous Liaisons: When your Father is an Urban Naxal
In 1991 my father, a lifelong communist, took me to the holy of holies of the CPM – AKG Centre in Trivandrum. This is literally the Kerala communist’s war room, where senior comrades work, eat, sleep – and More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – V: How Marxism still influences Indian politics
[contextly_sidebar id=”4Q9QxedV6JYsyMAck9CV1hqz2ZaZZimP”] The BJP, a so-called ‘conservative’ and ‘rightist’ party currently dominates the Indian political scene like no party has since Rajiv More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – IV: Was Indira Gandhi a Soviet Agent?
[contextly_sidebar id=”5XTV0Kq2F9EXRdFa3X8RXAUIEGhyCyaL”] In 2005, an otherwise dry academic book called The Mitrokhin Archive, about the activities of the KGB in Third World countries, created an unlikely More...
Good Lenin or bad Lenin, India needs less Lenin
In 1908 the great Indian nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested for his demand for immediate self rule. He was sentenced to six years in a Burma jail by a British kangaroo court. Days after Tilak’s trial, More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – III: Communism and Treason
[contextly_sidebar id=”NCQTSnD7BJZxJRiJvbwSDfQJwkmqFqQP”] When some JNU students raised violent and seditious anti-Indian slogans in the university campus on February 9, 2016, it came as a shock to many More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – II: How Communism Killed Freedom of Expression
[contextly_sidebar id=”04eH5RW1NiqXTdyyPwZA3co6BM4B1J8X”] In 2015, one and a half years after Narendra Modi led NDA came to rule the Centre with a thumping majority, a horde of so-called artists, authors More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – I: Is Communism Compatible with Democracy?
[contextly_sidebar id=”C4rLgLM8a8l83BoV4c4KjaSUizS5r3fc”] Hundred years ago, on 7th November, 1917, [1] a revolution took place in Europe which changed the fate of entire mankind. It was the Russian More...
Left’s Infiltration Into Education: The Great Betrayal by our Educators
What brings the Antifa, the Black Lives Matter, the radical feminists, Communists and Islamists together? There indeed is a one-word answer to that rather tedious question: Postmodernism. This non-/anti-philosophical More...