The Ignorance Within: How Hindutva Plutocrats are weakening the Intellectual Battle for Hindu Survival
Sri Ashok Chowgule, a businessman with shipping and other interests and sometime Working President of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), has written a long response in Swarajya to my recent analysis of why Hindus More...
Butchered in Bihar: A View from the Outside
After being decimated in Delhi and fallen short in Kashmir, the BJP has now been butchered in Bihar. Maybe a mauling awaits it in the coming Maharashtra civic polls. The question I want to raise here is very simple: More...
Bihar Election Analysis: Parivartan Likely to Triumph Over Parivar
[contextly_sidebar id=”8769c5dI4MrO3dpr2mC6n5C9xOGpVGaN”] In continuation of the series on the upcoming watershed Bihar assembly election, let us examine the developments in the last few weeks and try More...
Bihar Staring at Jungleraj 2.0
With gradual optimism being felt on multiple fronts in terms of governance at the national level, Bihar might be staring at a future full of gloom and darkness. The threat of the state being pushed back by another More...
OROP: Modi Government is the Victim of Past Sins
It’s pathetically foolish for anyone to believe that that the NDA government will deceive the nation by not honouring its commitment to OROP. It’s natural for the Pappu of our politics who has recently taken 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...
Land Acquisition Bill: the core issues
The government’s effort to bring amendments to the land acquisition Act of 2013 has caused such political rancour that it has become difficult to form an unbiased assessment of the issues involved. The government 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...
De-Marxification of HRD angers lapsed Marxist
There’s one thing that necessarily needs to be said about lapsed Marxists: they never fail to disappoint. And so it goes, in the 20 May edition of the Indian Express where cricket historian and scholar Ramachandra More...