Dignity has been the running theme of all of PM Modi’s programmes Julius Caesar, the great Roman ruler, is remembered for his last words to his old friend Brutus, as recorded by the Roman historian Suetonius: “You too, my child?”. His victory in the Roman Civil War leading to the capture of Rome and ascension […]
Manohar Parrikar’s greatest strength lay in his simplicity and transparency, and his reticent nature — not the positions he occupied or the policies he framed. Sometime in the early 2000s, I visited Goa in connection with some RSS work. A meeting with the state’s chief minister was arranged at his residence in the morning before […]
The aspirations of women in India have evolved. Policy, public discourse must keep pace. The problem with some policies is that they are at least a decade behind the thoughts and aspirations of the people. Unless we address this mismatch, seemingly noble policies also fail to do justice to the targeted sections of the population. […]
India has a huge problem with the regional narrative in the Kashmir Valley that helps Pakistan enormously India has many neighbours. But Pakistan is different. It is a neighbour that is singularly focused on harming and harassing India, irrespective of whether it benefits or damages its own interests. One former prime minister of Pakistan had […]
There were many who had disagreements with Gandhi… but to kill him needed not just difference of opinion, but a certain type of hatred borne of extreme frustration On the evening of January 29, 1948, Mohandas Gandhi told his grand-niece, Manu: “If an explosion took place… or someone shot at me and I received his […]
The Citizenship Amendment Bill has stringent applicability criteria. It is not —as it is being made out to be — an open invitation to minority groups in neighbouring countries In the mid-1990s, the then Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) government in Assam had proposed Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to six groups in the state — Tai-Ahoms, […]
यह पिछली सदी के आखिरी दशक की बात है जब असम में असम गण परिषद सरकार ने राज्य के छह समूहों को अनुसूचित जनजाति यानी एसटी का दर्जा देने की पहल की। इनमें ताई-अहोम, मोरान, मटक, कोच राजबोंगशी आदि जनजाति समूहों के नाम शामिल हैं। इस प्रस्ताव को संसद में खारिज कर दिया गया। कालांतर […]
Party machine has to be aggressively geared up for the election. It needs centralised inspiration, but decentralised initiative. Morgan Harper Nichols is an American lyricist and gospel musician. One of her year-end songs goes something like this. “This year will not end/ Like last year at all./ You have learned to be free./ You have […]
For the first time, the birth anniversary of Atalji would be celebrated after he left his physical existence. The man who established connect with almost four generations of Bharat strongly provided the nationalist narrative through his journalism, poetry, speeches, foreign policy, public policy and even politics. Through his politics of positivity and humility, he would […]
For Vajpayee, ‘Country is a temple and we are all its priests. We must sacrifice our lives at the altar of the national god’. In his famous address to the parliament after his government lost the vote of confidence in 1996, Vajpayee exhorted: “These power games will go on. Governments come and governments go. Parties […]
