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Signs of Desperation
29 April 2019, by Barun Das GuptaThe BJP leaders, from the Prime Minister downward, are showing signs of desperation. Their campaign speeches are not only becoming more raucous but also ribald. Truth to say, facing such attacks constantly, some Opposition leaders have also been (...) -
BJP’s ‘Nationalism’ Sounds Hollow Slogan-shouting
29 April 2019by Samit Kar
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and several of its frontal organisations like the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM), RSS, Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) have always tried to play the Hindu card while projecting the age-old (...) -
BJP’s Dangerous Politics
29 April 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
One of my earliest reporting experiences was the great Calcutta killing of 1946. Fierce communal passions were unleashed and thousands were done to death on both sides in the course of a couple of days. But behind that gory (...) -
What was at Stake in the 2006/2008 Malegaon Terror Attacks?
29 April 2019by Mustafa Khan
It was a colossal risk when the two Malegaon terror attacks took place. Israel had asked the Abhinav Bharat of Lt Col Purohit of the Indian Army to provide two such attacks to prove the bona fide of seeking help from Israel for (...) -
Trust Level Down, Cash Is King
29 April 2019, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
The wonder that is Indian elections is losing some of its wonderness. Statistically of course it remains a marvel—880 million voters (total US population is 328 million), 11 million election workers, two million voting machines, 2300 (...) -
Why BJP Seeks to Discredit Nehru and Family
29 April 2019by Mahendra Ved
Nehru is the BJP’s principal target because he not only ‘discovered’ India but also piloted what free India became for 16 long years
A cartoon doing media rounds amidst the Election 2019 campaign shows India’s first Prime Minister (...) -
Remembering Justice Rajindar Sachar on his First Death Anniversary
29 April 2019by Prem Singh
Today (April 20, 2019) is the first death anniversary of Justice Rajindar Sachar—a socialist visionary, a judge par excellence, a true secular democrat, an unrelenting human rights and civil liberties champion and a wonderful person (...) -
Candidates with Cases of Crime against Women
29 April 2019, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
Don’t know your reactions when you saw Dharmendra going about in Uttar Pradesh, campaigning for his wife, Hema Malini. A rather hopeless sight, to see this ageing actor fly down from Mumbai for a day or two, just to tell the potential (...) -
A Primer on the Business of Corrupt Governance
29 April 2019by R. Khosla
On independence we gave ourselves a Constitution. The Constitution was to provide us the framework of governance. It created the judiciary and everything else that is required for the governance of the country in the interests of (...) -
WhatsApp Democracy comes to India !
29 April 2019by L.K. Sharma
The expanding virtual universe of the 21st century began by featuring intimate personal relations among human beings, replacing face-to-face contact with Facebook messages. In this world, the women and men could safely say the (...)
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