End of an Article – A rejoinder to asymmetric secularism
THE GAVEL OF judgment has struck the first blow against minority-ism in India. That it has taken three-quarters of a century to expunge the “temporary and transitory” Article 370 from the Constitution is a testament to the resilience of that affliction. For the uninitiated, Article 370 of the Constitution guaranteed special status to Jammu and […]
Read MoreThe Poster Boy of Exclusivism
Geert Wilders’ victory is a message to Europe from Dutch voters POPULIST ANTI-ISLAMISM leader Geert Wilders has won a surprise victory in the Dutch general election with his Freedom Party (PVV) picking up 37 seats. Though short of a majority, Wilders is now busy negotiating a power-sharing pact with other similarly inclined parties that could […]
Read MoreLook Who’s Seeking the Final Solution Now
Hamas has committed a crime against humanity. Peace cannot be Israel’s responsibility alone It’s a scene straight out of the Zombie apocalypse”. With these words Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus, the solemn-faced Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson, began his broadcast. Over the next 15 minutes he walked his horrified audience through the merciless torture inflicted by […]
Read MoreThe Limits of Moral Imperialism
The Anglo-elite’s attitude towards an emerging superpower like India reeks of hypocrisy t hasn’t taken very long for the self-appointed fount of Anglo-moralism, The Economist, to hold forth on l’affaire Nijjar. In an attempt to put in context the mysterious assassination of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the magazine has chided India for not heeding the mores of the […]
Read MoreA Return to Vivekananda – India must seize its G20 moment to launch Hindu internationalism
IN 1893, A 30-YEAR-OLD prodigiously talented monk took India to the world. Swami Vivekananda, already an authority on Western logic, a Vedic philosopher and historian, astounded his audience at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago with a dazzling treatise on the refreshingly tolerant and non-prescriptive Hindu dharma. Awestruck, the delegates even gave Swami Vivekananda […]
Read MoreWhy The Economist has got it wrong on the Modi-Biden meet
The upcoming Modi-Biden diplomatic Tango in Washington D.C has all the makings of a “super summit”. President Biden is going the whole 9-yards to make Prime Minister Modi’s India feel special. The first designated “state visit” since 2009 will witness the Indian PM becoming only one of four leaders (Mandela, Churchill and Zelensky) to the […]
Read MoreWhy The Economist has got it wrong on the Modi-Biden meet
The upcoming Modi-Biden diplomatic Tango in Washington D.C has all the makings of a “super summit”. President Biden is going the whole 9-yards to make Prime Minister Modi’s India feel special. The first designated “state visit” since 2009 will witness the Indian PM becoming only one of four leaders (Mandela, Churchill and Zelensky) to the […]
Read MoreSecular Schizophrenia: Mamata and the meme fest on Modi and the Adheenam
Modi should give the opposition what it wishes for – true blue secularism and then sit back and watch the fun. Bengal’s Chief Minister and firebrand leader Mamata Banerjee and several of her cohorts in the Opposition are besides themselves with grief. They are mourning the death of Indian secularism the remains of which they […]
Read MoreIs the AAP honeymoon getting over? The party’s claims to be BJP’s toughest challenger need to pass a few tests
Two images. In one frame Aam Aadmi Party’s CM candidate for Gujarat Isudan Gadhvi cuts a forlorn figure. He has just been routed. In the other image his party boss Arvind Kejriwal is smiling, thanking the people of Gujarat for conferring ‘national party status’ upon his “chhoti si” party. Kejriwal’s AAP may have been rejected […]
Read MoreFiery violence after France trounced Morocco wasn’t random hooliganism but an obligation
Football, was once with some consideration, described as “socialism without the politics.” The phrase was said to have been minted from behind the once impregnable Iron Curtain by Polish writer ryszard kapuscinski. He wasn’t wrong, the game is within everyone’s reach. Rich, poor, black, white, upper caste, lower caste, LGBTQI, all, if they have the talent, can step […]
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