Towering resentment: Why the British are sulking over the Statue of Unity
It is peculiar that when something good comes out of India, sections of British society start carping about India’s poverty. No other country is as obsessed with India’s poor as Britain (although it is a notable More...
The Last Viceroy of India: Book Review
This is a review of the book, Nehru: A Troubled Legacy by R N P Singh, New Delhi: Wisdom Tree, 2015 The English historian, politician, and writer Lord John Dalberg-Acton wrote in an 1887 letter to Bishop Creighton, More...
Recalling the Indus Water Treaty or Nehru’s Sixth Blunder
Immediately after last month’s aborted Indo-Pak NSA-level talks, a participant in a Rajya Sabha TV debate said “Let’s see how their Water Talks go.” “Water Talks? Indo-Pak Water Talks? What, pray. are More...
Asaduddin Owaisi: One lakh Muslims butchered in the Deccan
Assertion In a debate on Times Now on 11 March 2014, Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi made the following claim: As far as the police action is concerned, let us do a programme on Pandit Sunderlal More...
The only Sardar of India
“Just imagine the most difficult and delicate situation in which we were placed at the time of attaining independence, with some 600 Indian States of all shapes and sizes and in different degrees of advancement More...
A G Noorani calls Sardar Patel a Communalist
Assertion: The latest cover story of Frontline is a lengthy essay by A.G. Noorani that purports to prove that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a communalist based on a “documented record.” As part of More...
Indian Communists’ Attack on the Vision of India
I had always held and now repeatedly reiterate that the communists, especially the members and leaders of the Communist Parties and their bandwagoners, have of late reduced themselves to becoming the intellectual 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...
Salil Tripathi Wants no Heroes
Ordinary men rise to become heroes because of the ideals and values they espouse. And heroes are seldom remembered for their looks, skin tone or other facets of their physical personality. Heroes are remembered 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...