Liberating the Kashmir narrative
Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have now brought compelling closure to SP Mookerjee’s long-drawn fight for a comprehensive Kashmir resolution Remembering Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, ‘our party’s first national president who had attained martyrdom for this very demand of removing Article 370’, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, while replying to …
Jana Sangh founder’s dream of ‘one India’ is finally a reality
Asked if he would respect the Indian tricolour, Sheikh Abdul said, “Oh, of course, we will recognise it.” But Syama Prasad Mookerjee was not convinced. In Parliament, he responded, “The Union flag is there in spite of anybody, and that is the flag of free India.” When Abdullah then said …
For India wreckers, these are difficult times
The past fortnight has seen two decisive steps taken as far as our collective resolve to fight terrorism is concerned. Union Home Minister Amit Shah successfully piloted both the NIA Bill and UAPA Bill in Parliament. The debate and Shah’s response on both the bills brought out certain fundamental positions …
Visvas versus False Narrative
Just as the Modi government completed fifty days a group of self-styled guardians and conscience keepers of the country wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister Modi. The ruse was to write to him and give the impression to the world at large that India under Modi is in …
Bolstering the will to fight terror
UAPA amendment reflects the Union Home Minister’s uncompromising stand on terrorism and conviction to defend India’s national security, unity and sovereignty The power to name an individual as a terrorist conferred on the government under the amended UAPA Bill has raised the hackles of some. This is understandable as those …
An indomitable spirit
Syama Prasad Mookerjee continues to permeate and percolate into the very essence and fibre of our national existence Going beyond mere ritualism of remembering him on his death and birth anniversary the interest in the life and legacy of Syama Prasad Mookerjee is growing by the day and spreading across …
BJP’s Surgical Strike On Opposition Was Part Of A Stunning Gameplan By Narendra Modi-Amit Shah Duo
All pre-election talk of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah being cut down to size evaporated after the Lok Sabha elections were declared. But BJP’s confidence to win majority on its own was backed by genius of a strategy. Much ink is now being expended trying to decipher why and how …
Struggle to further the idea of a new India
The upcoming election is a struggle between those who want to suppress and those who wish to perpetuate the quest for re-stating India’s “authentic temperament” without hesitation. The bugle for the epic battle for India has been sounded. The next 70 days or so will decide and define the future …
Congress’ trajectory of subversion
Modi’s triumph will eradicate this mentality of subversion which was allowed to go unchecked for decades under Congress The idea of the motherland is a sacred notion for a majority of Indians. Indians are patriotic people, passionate about the security and safety of their motherland. They wish her to be …
Modi reinforces ‘Pulwama solidarity’
The Balakot air strike has indicated that India under Narendra Modi has redefined the concept of strategic restraint. The strikes were essentially our defence against terrorism and demonstrated India’s determination to nip it at the place from where it originates. It unequivocally demonstrated that we are not defensive anymore and …
The rise of a novel India
With 5 years of governance as testimony to his perseverance, Modi has admirably steered India’s civilisational march. In the last fortnight or more, the Prime Minister’s final address to the 16th Lok Sabha has somehow been pushed into the background. At a time when the question is being repeatedly asked …
Massive Response to Modi Unnerves Mamata
In her unbridled quest for the imaginary prime ministership of an imaginary “Federal Front”, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee unleashed an attack on the democratic and federal fabric of India and her Constitution in the evening of February 3. Not since Independence has one seen …
Narendra Modi: Creative Disruptor
Narendra Modi – creative disruptor: the maker of New India (Konark Publishers, 2019) by veteran journalist and public intellectual Dr R Balashankar, is the right antidote to another book on Modi, written by another Malayalee, who often falsely claims to be a “good Hindu” – Dr Shashi Tharoor. Anyone who …
Modi must get credit for mainstreaming the nationalist narrative
On December 30 2018, when he was striding down the corridors of the iconic Cellular Jail in Port Blair, paying his obeisance to the memory of legions of revolutionary nationalists who had sacrificed themselves in the hellhole of Kala Paani for India’s liberation, Narendra Modi, as the prime minister of …