By his actions, Gandhi demonstrated the power of the powerless catapulting him as an icon of thought leadership for all times to come Mahatma Gandhi is one leader who sparks so much passion and attracts so much attention even after 150 years of his birth and 71 years after demise. There are many who love […]
As the Constitution turns 70, its spirit needs to be guarded not only by parliamentarians but also by the people with utmost sacredness Seventy years ago, on this day, the Indian Constitution was finally signed and sealed by the Constituent Assembly. It was the first ever democratic Constitution that India had adopted. In the past, […]
Like Lincoln, Modi too needed an iron-will. Lincoln had to be ruthless with racial fascism in his time. For Modi, it was, to quote Bashir Assad in his book K File, masla-e-Kashmir is no longer political; it is about Nizam-e-Mustafa; it is a pan-Islamic movement now. Lincoln didn’t have any choice. Neither did Modi. Abraham […]
Symbols of vandalism and iconoclasm at the most sacred places of Hindus, like Ayodhya, have been very big sources of embarrassment as the sentiments associated with such places are quite deep-rooted. The Ram temple at Ayodhya will soon be a reality, now that the legal hurdles have been removed by the Supreme Court. Symbols of […]
Gandhi-haters are still there, though Gandhi wouldn’t mind it. “If I had no sense of humour,” he wrote in 1928, “I would long ago have committed suicide”. Gandhi used to say that, “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” What is common between Dominique Pire, a Belgian priest, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, a teacher in Argentina, […]
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya was the second top Jana Sangh leader to die under mysterious circumstances — the first being the founder, Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who also died mysteriously on June 23, 1953. Mookerjee too was 52 at the time of his demise. Syama Prasad Mookerjee walked out of Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet due to ideological differences […]
Article 370: Chronicle of a death foretold ARTICLE 370 IS GONE. The country is rejoicing. But there are some mourners, not just in the Valley’s political circles but in Lutyens’ Delhi circles as well. For some it is an ideological confusion while for some others it is a political compulsion. But a sane examination of […]
The Indian leadership needs to appreciate the fact that in the emerging multipolar world order, India is a natural leader in the Indian Ocean region. By turning eastwards and focusing on building an Indian Ocean Bloc, it can aspire to rise as a guiding pole for many countries in the region. Three decades ago, when […]
Like Vajpayee, Arun Jaitley was a quintessential democrat. Atal ji used poetry to express himself, Jaitley used prose. What a cruel destiny it is to be forced into writing obituaries every few months. In the past five years, we in the BJP have lost six young and dedicated leaders to untimely deaths. First, it was […]
Kashmir needs a new leadership, built not on the separatist narrative of the 20th century but on the development narrative of the 21st century. It is here that the investment and focus of the central government should go. For the separatists in Kashmir, the winter chill has set in early. And it is likely to […]
