Mr.Daniyal History is an academic discipline: flippancy won’t do
On 28 October, Shoaib Daniyal wrote a report on scroll.in titled Meet the icons of India’s refurbished history: Mukherjee, Upadhyaya, Malaviya. After reading the piece, one would be left with the feeling that More...
KASHMIR ISSUE BEGINS WITH THE INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION
The gory struggle for land is one of the most recurring as well as regrettable chapter in the history of mankind, and the 20th Century is no exception. Whether it is Greece vs Turkey over Cyprus, Armenia vs Azerbaijan More...
Memory loss of Modi critics
In the 18 October 2014 edition of DNA, Hemant Karnik, wrote about how the fans of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are ever so loud and abusive , how with each passing day they are spiraling out of control. In his More...
Narendra Modi: The Prime Minister who will transform India
Introduction: India’s Phase Transition Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi’s administration can be considered to be a “phase transition” for India’s economy, to borrow a concept from thermodynamics. Phase More...
In which Pankaj Mishra defends racists
Livemint on 30 September published this op-ed by Pankaj Mishra, which warns how the Americans are falling for a dangerous cliché known as Narendra Modi. Let there be no mistake: this is your usual anti-Modi article. More...
Uniform Civil Code must be implemented urgently
With the recent Supreme Court Judgement that Fatwas are not legally binding, the question of a uniform civil code is again being debated.Recently, the Press Council of India Chairperson Justice Markandey Katju said More...
Ambedkar: a dispassionate assessment
I would like to share my individual and personal views on Ambedkar, a path breaker and rebel iconoclast I have tremendous regard for. This said, he perhaps needs to be also viewed through a prism that has been sidestepped More...
Origins of Pseudosecularism in Nehru-Patel Rift
Not many people know that the term ‘pseudo-secularism’ originated in the rift between Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru’s hunger for power and his shenanigans had prevented Sardar Patel More...
RSS has breached its undertaking
Assertion: Vidya Subramhaniam, in an article titled The Forgotten Promise of 1949 in the Hindu makes the following claims. 1. The RSS wrote a non-political role for itself as part of an undertaking it gave Sardar More...