by V.P. Jain
Modi is hogging all the media limelight by trumpeting his development gospel, a remix of the NDA’s 2004 ‘India Shining’ chorus. Self-obsessed, vain and presumptuous, he has been assiduously working to create a larger than life-size (...)
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A Model in Search of Substance
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Memory and Modi
2 April 2014, by Mukul DubeI see around me a massive failure of memory. Narendra Damodardas Modi headed the pack of which the Supreme Court of India said, in April 2004, “The modern day Neros were looking elsewhere when Best Bakery and innocent children and helpless women (...) -
Election Scene : Advantage Modi, but...
23 March 2014, by SCEDITORIAL
As we go to press, news has come that several important personalities from other parties have been making a beeline for the BJP.
The Congress has been worst hit by such defections, a phenomenon not unusual before any general election. (...) -
Varanasi Muslims see Hope in Kejriwal’s Announcement
23 March 2014by Abdul Hayi Ansari
Following the declaration of Modi as the BJP’s candidate [in the Lok Sabha elections] for Varanasi, Kejriwal’s announcement that he may contest against Modi, has given incentive to the local Muslims.
Inquilab’s correspondent (...) -
Neville Maxwell and Brooks’ Report
23 March 2014, by Kuldip NayarI was the correspondent of The Times, published from London, when Neville Maxwell was its South Asia correspondent. He operated from New Delhi and we often discussed matters con-cerning India and other countries, particularly China.
That he was (...) -
The Godfather {par excellence}
23 March 2014, by Uttam SenTRIBUTE
I had met the famous Sardar of “... malice towards one and all” fame under trying circumstances in Mumbai, then Bombay. It was an otherwise pleasant winter afternoon but the occasion was as fraught as any associated with one’s first job (...) -
Russian Spring in Crimea
23 March 2014, by Arun MohantyTill a fortnight back nobody could ever imagine that the Ukrainian crisis, triggered by the ultra-nationalists in connivance with the West through an armed coup that overthrew the legitimate President of the country and brought a government full (...) -
Jagat Singh Mehta
23 March 2014, by Muchkund DubeyTRIBUTE
Jagat Singh Mehta, a renowned diplomat, a skilful negotiator, a prolific writer and social worker, passed away quietly at his ancestral home in Udaipur on March 6, 2014. By his vision, sense of purpose and sheer hard work, he carved out (...) -
Meaning of Modern Civilisation
23 March 2014, by Rammanohar Lohia[(Dr Rammanohar Lohia’s 104th birth anniversary falls on March 23 this year. Since his birthday coincided with the day of martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru, he never wanted his followers to observe or celebrate his birthday. (...) -
Left Unity: Lohia’s Approach
23 March 2014by Ravindranath and Ayub Syed
An encounter with the socialist leader would be rather extraordinary without some rough weather but we were not prepared for the squall we ran into the moment we sat down with him in his well-appointed drawing room. (...)
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