Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
The Pakistani political leadership is weak and devoid of any intellect. Its diplomacy is entirely India-China-US focused and suffers from a presumptive view of Afghanistan as a vassal.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
By next weekend, Bangladesh will have an elected government. This is India’s moment to reboot broken ties by moderating the ‘ghuspethiya’ rhetoric in poll-bound West Bengal and Assam.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
India will need to recalibrate crude sourcing strategy as US ends waivers for Russian & Iranian oil, energy experts say. But Russian crude will likely remain central to energy basket.
This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
How can one say that congress ideology never governed ? The secular ideology got pushed into the constitution. The socialist ideology reflected in licence raj, 96 percent incometax. The world peace ideology costed 3400 acres of land to chinna. The tolerance ideology gave free hand to terrorism.
This is a comical article. This is like trying to explain things after a goal has been scored, and saying that it is all too easy to see why it happened. Pick things you want and string together to make absolutely useless conclusion.
I wonder why he stopped short of talking about vedas, upanishad and epics, which are the root and inspiration for all the other texts.
He talks about flexibility in policies by Congress, BJP sees it as appeasement policies.
There is nothing hard to explain about BJP. They are hard core nationalist with India first in their mind and are not afraid to take gutsy decisions to move India forward. That is the fundamental here. And we are seeing amazing results!
Once you understand the above, you have understood BJP.
your articles are never straight forward, u seem to be over thinking. Try to be concise.
And this article lacks substance. It is just perspective.
The real test of Bjp’s Commitment to ideology will be when it will be WEAKER and declining.
who said BJP govt (Modi) is difficult to understand. It’s obvious, Modi does whatever he EASILY CAN (he won’t bring Swizz money though) to entertain Hindus, which is its main vote bank 85%. Whatever he does, is completely aligned with one and only one thing: Votes of Hindus.
From doing nothing to enforce 144, and preventing killings of dozens of people, to bailing RamRahim out, all this he must not have read as well.
But, Vote is Prior to Hindutva and Hindu for Modi. Think a little u will find equally many things that even RSS and Savarkar would not have allowed, which Modi is doing anyway.
All these things 370, 3 talaq, UCC, Population Control etc. are all BS political gimmicks. He is doing all these because they don’t cost any money and are extremely entertaining to his main vote bank. Manmohan was dead boring, Modi on the otherhand keeps his voters always busy.
Today, simultaneous elections too will be beneficial for Modi, that is why he is dancing for it. Why does he not seek for fair appointment of Chief Election Commissioner, after all Advani has written a book in favour of that, because he doesn’t have to and that’s extra luxury for him.
Congress couldn’t follow secularism because the idea of secularism is difficult and much higher than the instinctive idea of primitive tribalism. Congress is struggling because of its perennial priority of one parivaar over party. Bjp is much better organisation than any other party of india.
1.4 billion Indians, one sixth of the human race. Joining the First World by 2047 is not feasible, although PM LKY completed that journey for Singapore in a generation. For this vast political capital to translate into better HDI scores, continuing material improvements for the lower one half of households. That would change India internally and its place in the world.
I guess this explains why this government focuses on more long term goals whereas the last one concerned itself with short-sighted and ad-hoc policy making which was disastrous.
If you hear the dhun sung by Vishnu Paluskar’s son DV Paluskar on YouTube, you will not find eashwar alla tero naam. These words were added by someone else.
How can one say that congress ideology never governed ? The secular ideology got pushed into the constitution. The socialist ideology reflected in licence raj, 96 percent incometax. The world peace ideology costed 3400 acres of land to chinna. The tolerance ideology gave free hand to terrorism.
This is a comical article. This is like trying to explain things after a goal has been scored, and saying that it is all too easy to see why it happened. Pick things you want and string together to make absolutely useless conclusion.
I wonder why he stopped short of talking about vedas, upanishad and epics, which are the root and inspiration for all the other texts.
He talks about flexibility in policies by Congress, BJP sees it as appeasement policies.
There is nothing hard to explain about BJP. They are hard core nationalist with India first in their mind and are not afraid to take gutsy decisions to move India forward. That is the fundamental here. And we are seeing amazing results!
Once you understand the above, you have understood BJP.
your articles are never straight forward, u seem to be over thinking. Try to be concise.
And this article lacks substance. It is just perspective.
The real test of Bjp’s Commitment to ideology will be when it will be WEAKER and declining.
who said BJP govt (Modi) is difficult to understand. It’s obvious, Modi does whatever he EASILY CAN (he won’t bring Swizz money though) to entertain Hindus, which is its main vote bank 85%. Whatever he does, is completely aligned with one and only one thing: Votes of Hindus.
From doing nothing to enforce 144, and preventing killings of dozens of people, to bailing RamRahim out, all this he must not have read as well.
But, Vote is Prior to Hindutva and Hindu for Modi. Think a little u will find equally many things that even RSS and Savarkar would not have allowed, which Modi is doing anyway.
All these things 370, 3 talaq, UCC, Population Control etc. are all BS political gimmicks. He is doing all these because they don’t cost any money and are extremely entertaining to his main vote bank. Manmohan was dead boring, Modi on the otherhand keeps his voters always busy.
Today, simultaneous elections too will be beneficial for Modi, that is why he is dancing for it. Why does he not seek for fair appointment of Chief Election Commissioner, after all Advani has written a book in favour of that, because he doesn’t have to and that’s extra luxury for him.
Congress couldn’t follow secularism because the idea of secularism is difficult and much higher than the instinctive idea of primitive tribalism. Congress is struggling because of its perennial priority of one parivaar over party. Bjp is much better organisation than any other party of india.
1.4 billion Indians, one sixth of the human race. Joining the First World by 2047 is not feasible, although PM LKY completed that journey for Singapore in a generation. For this vast political capital to translate into better HDI scores, continuing material improvements for the lower one half of households. That would change India internally and its place in the world.
I guess this explains why this government focuses on more long term goals whereas the last one concerned itself with short-sighted and ad-hoc policy making which was disastrous.
What took Shekhar Gupta such a long time to find this out? Elite contempt for anything Desi?
If you hear the dhun sung by Vishnu Paluskar’s son DV Paluskar on YouTube, you will not find eashwar alla tero naam. These words were added by someone else.