Heralding a Post-Congress India
Arun Shourie in a recent interview to NDTV has perhaps best captured the agenda for the newly-elected Government led Narendra Modi. He simply said: “Modi would like to succeed as a builder of modern India.” More...
Narendra Modi and the Rajapaksa Controversy
Narendra Modi has invited the Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa to his swearing in ceremony. The Tamilnadu chief minister Jayalalitha and the LTTE sympathizer V. Gopalaswamy have expressed displeasure over More...
Civilizational tasks for the Narendra Modi Government
Introduction Let me start by thanking the many people who have tangibly helped me: with money, hospitality, logistical support, and information. No names here, firstly because it would be unfair to those I forget, More...
Epic parallels and symbols in the 2014 elections
Even before Narendra Modi’s evocative Ganga arti and his prostration before the steps of Parliament, this election was replete with symbols. While all sides attempted to use them to their advantage, the BJP turned More...
Narendra Modi: the first anti-Nehruvian Prime Minister
Some men, wrote Friedrich Nietzsche, are born posthumously. But some men also die posthumously: Jawaharlal Nehru belongs to this category. Biologically, he died on 27 May 1964, at the age of 74. But it was almost More...
Open letter to Ed Miliband
Dear Ed, Your prolonged silence on the little matter of the Indian elections compels me to write to you. It may have passed you by, or you may have been holed out in a cave with best friends, so you missed the More...
The USCIRF testimony of Kamal Mitra Chenoy
Preface The researchers at IndiaFacts have dug up an interesting document from the past. Something that has significant bearing on how Prime Minister Narendra Modi should fashion his policy towards the United More...
Congress and AAP buried under their own slander
Press Council of India (PCI) chairperson Justice Markandey Katju once said that 90 per cent of Indians are “idiots.” It seems political parties, especially the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress could not More...
Indian intellectual mafia in panic mode
Once upon a time, India was so good from the perspective of intellectuals. Which means Nehruvian. Socialism, secularism, and non-alignment—the key ingredients of the Nehruvian consensus—were flourishing. Of More...
Narendra Modi’s challenge to Islam
Narendra Modi poses the greatest challenge to Islam since modern Turkey’s Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, perhaps an even greater one. This has been understood perfectly by adherents to the marginal Wahhabi sect that has More...