Mainstream Weekly

The ‘Modi'fied India 2019

K.P. Fabian — 2019-06-29T22:10:36Z

All of us in India, including the BJP, have been stunned by the unprecedented and unanticipated landslide victory of Modi who like a juggernaut swept across the electoral landscape smashing everything standing in its way. The Opposition has been traumatised and there are feeble signs of the defeated parties endeavouring to recover. The civil society has shown more resilience.
Obviously, no single factor can explain what has happened. So far our media have not shown much investigative (…)

- 2019

Subjective Obsessions diminish Quality of Historical Analysis

K.P. Fabian — 2009-10-11T10:49:05Z

BOOK REVIEW
Jinnah: India-Partition Independence by Jaswant Singh; Rupa and Company, New Delhi; pages 669; Rs 695.
As I completed the enjoyable navigation through the ponderous, pompous, and pontificatory prose of Jaswant Singh, I was reminded of three other famous writers:
Oscar Wilde: The only duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Benedetto Croce: All historiography is contemporary historiography.
Voltaire: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to (…)

- October 2009

Kandhamal: What Next?

K.P. Fabian — 2009-09-09T18:14:14Z

I visited Kandhamal for three days starting from June 20, 2009. Apart from NGOs, the Superintendent of Police, the leaders of the Church (Catholic and non-Catholic), I also met with inmates of eight camps.
To start with, it is important to clearly understand why and how the atrocities occurred. It is unsubstantiated propaganda that the origins of the atrocities are best understood by ascertaining the “root causes”. According to such propaganda the “root causes” are the efforts of (…)

- September 2009