Lessons From BJP’s Bihar Election Fiasco
Reams have already been written on the drubbing received by the BJP in the crucial Bihar assembly election. Let me attempt to add my own two cents’ worth to the series of postmortem reports that have been More...
Why PM Modi should Cancel his UK Trip Immediately
There are four good reasons for the PM to not go to the UK on 12 November: first, it is an insignificant country. Second, they just gave China’s Xi a royal welcome, and what they do for Modi will be limited in More...
The West and East Meet Only to Demonize the Hindu
Awards being returned, and of such acts planned and simply announced by the returnees on the national news media, reminds me of the Ramana Mahirshi-inspired Paul Brunton’s writing about artists and writers and 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...
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...
The IndiaFacts Adarsh Liberal Ready Reckoner
The second chapter of Sita Ram Goel’s 1984 book, Perversion of India’s Political Parlance, is titled Words Which Defy Dictionaries. Sita Ram Goel was one of Independent India’s most fearless champions 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...
Rahul Just Doesn’t Have It
Every time I sit down at my computer to put down my thoughts on the present scenario of India I feel utterly dejected and disgusted — rather confused, that I give it up. For one I am at a loss on where to More...
Moral Outrage of EyeStar Seagull
EyeStar Seagull gloomily stared at the television as she flipped channels. “What is this country coming to,” she said to her naukarani Rasika, the only one around who listened to her any more, “I see rallies More...
India’s Thought Cops are Angry with Modi
In the last week of September at Dadri not far from the Indian capital, an angry mob lynched to death Mohammad Akhlaq over allegations that a cow was slaughtered and he ate beef. In the 1970s and 1980s in Bihar More...