India’s tribute to the architect of unity
In a historic tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the Government has announced sesquicentennial celebration to honour Patel’s unyielding legacy in unifying India Union Home Minister Amit Shah has announced that to honour Sardar Patel’s ‘monumental contributions’, to commemorate, his ‘enduring legacy as the visionary behind the establishment of one of …
Making of a New India
Structural reforms undertaken by the Modi regime have led the nation to the road of economic progress and the building of a welfare state by Navneet Anand On November 27, the Rashtrapati Bhawan Cultural Centre in New Delhi was abuzz with policy-makers and intelligentsia. The occasion was launch of the …
SITUATING BANKIM IN TODAY’S BENGAL
The Congress, Communists and the lone intellectual in the Trinamool in the midst of lumpens, Sugata Bose, took umbrage that Amit Shah had dared to come to Kolkata and to speak on Bankim BJP president Amit Shah delivered the first Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Memorial Oration, instituted by the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research …
ACHARYA MODI AND THE VISION OF VISVA BHARATI
Modi’s words at the Samavartana Utsava reminded one of Syama Prasad’s observations at the Samavartana Utsava 68 years ago. It was a call to actualise the vision of building a ‘New India’ Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee delivered the Convocation address at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, on December 25, 1950 and Prime Minister Narendra …
SAGA OF BENGAL MIRRORS THE MINDLESSNESS OF LEADERS
One of the most heart wrenching, irony-soaked episodes during the Karnataka election campaign was the ludicrous spectacle of a few superannuated Congress leaders — led by Manmohan Singh — writing to the President of India directing him to ‘caution’ Prime Minister Modi on the kind of language he used during the campaign. …
DEAR FRIENDS, BE ALERT
An Open Letter to BJP Members of Parliament Many of us worked very hard for the victory of the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. Many proclaimed that they had worked hard for the victory of the party in 2014; many others who had equally worked very hard, chose to …
HOW THE LOTUS BLOOMED: A LOOK BACK IN TIME
Ever since its inception, the BJP has seen decades of struggle and the Lotus did bloom in 2014. Ever since then, the party under Modi and Shah has become a bridge between the Government and the people It was on April 6, 1980, at the Kotla grounds in Delhi that …
Vulture Politics And Amit Shah Phobia
That Shah has consistently, resolutely and without reserve displayed a firm unwillingness and refusal to be co-opted by the cabal is his gravest ‘crime’ The left illiberal cabal, the Congress leadership (especially the current “high command”), directionless and ideologically bereft communists, five-star activists who raise funds in the name of relief and …
Kashmir Narratives That Nail The Difference – II
Jagmohan’s seven-point agenda to reinvent the State of Jammu & Kashmir is being implemented by a promising helmsman in Narendra Modi and that is a cause for great hope for the nation In his seven-point programme delineated in the 12th edition of his seminal work on Jammu & Kashmir (My Frozen Turbulence …
Kashmir Narratives That Nail The Difference – I
P Chidambaram is behaving like the buccaneer of a sinking ship, indulging in sophistry on Jammu & Kashmir; in contrast, the erudite Jagmohan is still working on solutions It is interesting to observe how some out of work and out of season politicians gradually lose grip of their mind and …
New Narrative For a Civilisational India
The political and intellectual struggle for a new India narrative is deriving mutual strength, which poses a formidable challenge to those who wish to thwart the legacy of the ‘great ideals of Indian culture’ Five hundred years hence”, wrote the philosopher historian Ananda Coomaraswamy in one of his most celebrated …
Peddling falsehoods Gujarat campaign
In a couple of days, the Gujarat election result will bring to fore the benefits of trench warfare and expose a bunch of unnch people and their haute couture logic Around the time when the habitually foul-mouthed Mani Shankar Aiyar was having dinner with some of his unnch friends at his residence …
RAHUL’S SOMNATH VISIT IS A GIMMICK
Will the Congress president-elect now accept that Nehru’s opposition to rebuilding the Somnath Temple was misplaced? Rahul Gandhi who had once declared that those who worship in temples molest women, will, it has been reported, launch his campaign for the Gujarat assembly poll from sacred and eternal temple town of Somnath. …
RAHUL AT BERKELEY: A CONFUSED CACOPHONY
Rahul Gandhi’s Berkeley speech, unlike Nehru’s, was a private affair. Bereft of an element of thought, he expressed his own state of mind and that of his party’s — lacking in direction and cohesion Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech, delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, on October 31, 1949, …