JAMIAT ULAMA-I-HIND: GHETTOISING INDIAN MUSLIMS
How often do we hear that Muslims are being discriminated against, and that it is this that has led to their extreme poverty and backwardness? This seductive argument has been used, once again, by... An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world. Read Full Story
MS ARUNDHATI ROY'S WAR
Long before many of us were born, there lived a man in India who raised his voice against exploitation of India's resources and its citizens by the state that was then run by a colonial power. This... An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world. Read Full Story
LEADERSIP VACUUM AT THE HT SUMMIT
If a picture can say what a thousand words can't, this is one of them.Taken at the recent Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi and given top billing across six columns on a page that bore... An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world. Read Full Story
FOR BHARAT'S SAKE, AND INDIA'S, DUMP COLONIAL INSTITUTIONS
In the middle of all the noise in the media about the Naxal problem, brought to the fore again by the 'train-jacking' of the Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani by nearly 500 citizens, an extremely important... An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world. Read Full Story
PAKISTAN: THE IDEA IS SELF-DESTRUCTING
Pakistan is an idea that was doomed to fail the moment it got the shape of a state. Although MA Jinnah himself divided India into two on the basis of religion, he held on to the exactly opposite... An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world. Read Full Story
ELECTION RESULTS: TERRIBLE NEWS FOR BJP?
Almost everyone seems to think that the results that have been declared today for the assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana and Maharashtra are, as Barkha Dutt said in a tweet, "terrible... An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world. Read Full Story
INDIA HAS MUCH TO LEARN FROM CHINA, AND MUST
China's dramatic transformation into an economic power house in virtually the blink of a sleepy Indian eye has shaken some Indian leaders out of their misplaced slumber. It is beginning to dawn on... An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world. Read Full Story
BHARAT AND INDIA: ARMED REBELLION AND MENTAL SECESSION
The recent elections in Maharashtra have brought a harsh truth to the surface: rulers of Independent India have failed the people of both Gadchiroli and Mumbai, Bharat and India. How does one draw... An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world. Read Full Story
CHINA AND INDIA: COMPETITION OF CIVILISATIONS
In the last decade of the 20th Century, political scientist Samuel P. Huttington propounded the much debated theory of the Clash of Civilisations, according to which the fault lines between cultures... An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world. Read Full Story
VIVAAH LA DIFFERENCE!
Guest post by Gopinath Mavinkurve'2 States’ the latest from the latest youth icon, Chetan Bhagat, is about a Punjabi Munda by name of Krish wanting to marry Ananya, a Madrasi, er..Tamilian – a... An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world. Read Full Story