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West Should Listen to Putin And Abandon One-Size-Fits-All Model: BJP Politician

President Putin’s address at the 31st Annual Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi was historic and reflective of the “spirit of the age,” Dr. Anirban Ganguly, a member of the BJP National Executive, told Sputnik India. The Western countries should listen to President Vladimir Putin’s advice and immediately abandon their “one-size-fits-all approach” to …

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Partition Horror Remembrance Day: Why sorry tale of Bengal needs to be told again and again

While the saga of partition on the western front has seen ample research, documentation, and displays, much of the saga of the eastern partition and its various dimensions still remain to be narrated, documented, and re-stated Referring to a ‘private conversation’ he had with Jawaharlal Nehru, in Noakhali ‘around the …

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British Shaped India’s Education System to Prepare Clerks: Expert

Mohan Bhagwat, chief of federally ruling BJP’s parent organization RSS, stated that Indians were more educated due to a better school system until the British empire’s rule. In a scathing attack on the British Raj, Hindu nationalist organization RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat recently underlined the long-held general belief that the …

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Congress being sacrificed to perpetuate a self-obsessed family

The spectre of having to seat in the Opposition for 50 years is anathema to the Congress. In his dense tome, Birth of Non-Congressism, veteran socialist Madhu Limaye described Mrs Indira Gandhi’s attitude towards those who opposed her, especially towards the socialist duo comprising himself and George Fernandes, as “vituperative …

Book Review

Book Review: A Collector’s Item For Foreign Policy Buffs

When two of the three editors of a compendium are directly or indirectly associated with the BJP and when External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj launches the book, one would suspect this to be a hagiographic account of the NDA government’s foreign policy. But The Modi Doctrine: New Paradigms in India’s …