Mohan Bhagwat has shed Sangh’s traditional reticence. Challenge is to drive his message to the rank and file. It is a Glasnost moment for the Sangh. In the mid-1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev brought in new “openness” in the thinking and actions of the USSR. He didn’t reject Communism. He insisted that there was a need for […]
‘PROBABLY THE MOST important event in the province during the last 25 years—an event, moreover, which seems likely to alter permanently the whole feature of Assam and to destroy the whole structure of Assamese culture and civilization—has been the invasion of a vast horde of land-hungry immigrant.’ This was the warning given by British Census […]
Being a politician, J&K’s new governor can be an effective interlocutor for reviving the dialogue process. After 51 years, Jammu & Kashmir got a politician as governor when Satya Pal Malik became the 13th governor of the state. The last time the state had a politician as governor was in 1965-67. Dr Karan Singh, scion […]
Atalji practised his brand of politics without any hesitation or rethink. We have successfully done away with untouchability in social life. Yet, we acquired a new type of scourge called political untouchability. An atmosphere of intense hatred pervades the political arena today. Atalji never practised such politics. Atalji’s demise is an irreparable loss to contemporary […]
On the lines of India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nepal, too, has a stable government today with sufficient majority in the parliament. Nepal and India are not just two countries; they are two great and ancient civilisations. The bonds between the two countries are so strong and sacred that no contemporary development can disturb […]
Wuhan has paved the way for greater understanding of the future India and China are two great and ancient civilisations. They have shared millennia-old relations at civilisational level as well as socio-economic level. Post-independence, India had established political and diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. The first decade of the relationship witnessed great […]
When we talk about the North Eastern region of India we must keep in mind that we are talking about the 30th largest region in population in the world. The eight small states that constitute the North East region of India – Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura is the 11th […]
The government aims to build, over the next three years, 50 million houses for poor families. That will end India’s homelessness completely. A 19 year young college graduate from a small village in Punjab, fired by the zeal to innovate, remotely runs a tractor in his small farmland sitting under a tree nearby. He says […]
Whether External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was responsible for the transfer of a junior-level officer in the passport office at Lucknow, whether she did so out of a sense of pseudo-secular enthusiasm or whether the officer in question had become a victim of a secular clique — these are important questions, but they are of […]
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr, an American theologian, ethicist, and commentator on politics and public affairs, had once said of democracy: “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary”. It is this dance of democracy, a product of man’s capacity and cold-bloodedness, that the nation is witnessing with awe […]
