“In the turmoil of battle, the great general maintains a psychological serenity like the needles of the compass in the storm-tossed ship”, writes Clausewitz. Consciously or otherwise, the Opposition has centred this election round Modi. And the results affirm a phenomenon that Marxist social scientist William Davies describes as “the leader becomes the truth”. “The […]
A survival saga bookended by history and memory TEN MONTHS AFTER India secured its Independence, on May 14th, 1948, another nation took birth at the other end of Asia. David Ben-Gurion, the great leader of the Jewish people, declared on that day standing in Jerusalem that Israel, a Jewish nation by its constitution, came into […]
Credit for his listing as a global terrorist goes to the Narendra Modi government. Pakistan now has a chance to act on the resolution, tackle terror It was a significant victory for the Indian political and diplomatic establishment when the Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council finally succeeded in declaring dreaded Pakistani terrorist, Masood […]
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 […]
