100 Years of Russian Revolution – IV: Was Indira Gandhi a Soviet Agent?
[contextly_sidebar id=”5XTV0Kq2F9EXRdFa3X8RXAUIEGhyCyaL”] In 2005, an otherwise dry academic book called The Mitrokhin Archive, about the activities of the KGB in Third World countries, created an unlikely More...
Good Lenin or bad Lenin, India needs less Lenin
In 1908 the great Indian nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested for his demand for immediate self rule. He was sentenced to six years in a Burma jail by a British kangaroo court. Days after Tilak’s trial, More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – III: Communism and Treason
[contextly_sidebar id=”NCQTSnD7BJZxJRiJvbwSDfQJwkmqFqQP”] When some JNU students raised violent and seditious anti-Indian slogans in the university campus on February 9, 2016, it came as a shock to many More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – II: How Communism Killed Freedom of Expression
[contextly_sidebar id=”04eH5RW1NiqXTdyyPwZA3co6BM4B1J8X”] In 2015, one and a half years after Narendra Modi led NDA came to rule the Centre with a thumping majority, a horde of so-called artists, authors More...
100 Years of Russian Revolution – I: Is Communism Compatible with Democracy?
[contextly_sidebar id=”C4rLgLM8a8l83BoV4c4KjaSUizS5r3fc”] Hundred years ago, on 7th November, 1917, [1] a revolution took place in Europe which changed the fate of entire mankind. It was the Russian More...
Constitution Preamble or Why the Congress is addicted to secularism
In the recent Constitution Preamble row, the Congress has been exposed as a party which has always tried to conjure up bugbears and hide behind claptrap. So, it sees dangerous conspiracies in an inadvertent error, More...
A twist to Nehru’s Tryst
This was sent by IndiaFacts reader, Parag Tope. If only Nehru had said this…(The twist) What Nehru actually said(The Tryst) 11 “My chief defect is that I am more given to talking about things More...
How Congress kakistocracy and freeloaders bled India for 60 years
Just off the expressway from Mumbai, on the road leading into Pune, you see huge billboards advertising new housing developments with fancy names like “Whispering Pines” and “Orchard View” crowding each More...
A Primer on Economics: the disastrous impact of the Nehru Rate of Growth
Counterfactuals are generally instructive and entertaining. But in some cases, it can be deeply distressing to consider them. Those leave us sadder although wiser. And at times they provoke us to anger and outrage More...
Poverty: The new deity
Once upon a time, might was right and justice was the interest of the strong. Whichever brigand became powerful enough to gather a large number of armed men and subdue the local populace claimed to be the king of More...