BJP leader sends legal notice to Aparna Sen for calling BSF personnel ‘rapists’
At an event held at the Press Club in Kolkata, Padma Shri awardee Aparna Sen said that the military is being given more power than they should get. West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Anirban Ganguly has sent a legal notice to Bengali actor-filmmaker Aparna Sen for allegedly calling …
The foundation of a new political narrative
It is symbolic and significant that the seventieth anniversary of the first general election and the seventieth year of the founding of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, predecessor of Bharatiya Janata Party, are being observed this year. The Jana Sangh’s first biographer, Craig Baxter, spoke of the party as having, “a unique …
Modi accomplishes what Mookerjee set out to achieve
In June, when he was piloting the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which replaced an ordinance issued by the previous government, in Lok Sabha, Union home minister Amit Shah reminded the Congress and the Opposition benches that they must remember that Article 370 was purely “temporary in nature”. …
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 …
The Sangh has the gumption to evolve constantly
It was a reaching out which was frank, detailed, exhaustive and which, without circumventing hard questions, articulated the Sangh’s positions on crucial issues of the day. “Society has to make arrangements (vyavastha) for them, one can cannot neglect or stigmatise them”, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat replied when the question on …