Arun Nehru, who sought to be Court Chamberlain in the Rajiv Gandhi-era, argued to continue with Indira Gandhi’s policy of playing the Hindu card in a subtle way that did not alienate Muslims.
Narendra Modi's supremacy doesn't work in South India. Unless the BJP's next victory is more national in character, the Hindi belt vs the rest problem will fester going ahead.
We tend to romanticise the defeat of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency regime. Certainly, India didn’t rise up as a whole in 1977 to defend the institutions of democracy. It was sterilisation.
Modi's charisma and vision for India is the only mandate for elections. Local leaders become no more than facilitators. They are not expected to win votes in their own names.
Congress has no natural allies today, only enemies. But even after the opposition leaders have reunited under INDIA, it won't be enough to challenge the BJP in 2024.
Only one thing unites the BJP’s victories in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and it has very little to do with the local factors that are now being trotted out.
Even the people who declare that the BJP will lose most states in this round of assembly elections seem convinced that Narendra Modi will be back for another term.
If Hamas had attacked a military camp, we wouldn't have called it terrorism. You can see why those who want to whitewash Hamas’s actions are eager to muddy the waters.
Bengalis are hurt over a statement by the Delhi police calling Bangla a ‘Bangladeshi language’ and the lines Azad sang have unwittingly become protest music in Kolkata now.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
What a superficial analysis – as always!
Rajiv then was like his son today – clueless about Indian history, economics and sociology. His stance on the Shah Bano judgement was the root cause of the current scenario. It proved to educated, middle of the road Hindus that politicians will never allow the Muslim community to place the Constitution over the Quran. The rest, as they say, is history.
What a superficial analysis – as always!
Rajiv then was like his son today – clueless about Indian history, economics and sociology. His stance on the Shah Bano judgement was the root cause of the current scenario. It proved to educated, middle of the road Hindus that politicians will never allow the Muslim community to place the Constitution over the Quran. The rest, as they say, is history.