Vajpayee & Jana Sangh fought Nehru for quarantining fellow Indians in Northeast under Inner Line Permit. Their successors have strengthened & expanded it.
Arvind Kejriwal’s retreat from the fight with Narendra Modi is total. His focus is local issues & Delhi elections and this isn’t defeatism but excellent politics.
Article 370 is gone, now it’s time to fight the good fight — for rights of Kashmiris as fellow Indians and restoration of commerce & political activity in J&K.
The judiciary has become cocooned while being the supreme force for transparency elsewhere. The complainant against CJI Gogoi has laid bare this hypocrisy.
PAF had outranged and outgunned India’s best, and it’s only because of IAF’s training, awareness and some luck that Pakistan’s 27 February mission failed.
Pakistan and the world will have to keep the redefined red lines in mind. But India can’t be complacent, because Pakistan’s compulsive bad habits return.
Narendra Modi has been wise not to let Pakistan and Pulwama ruin ties with Saudi Arabia. And he's only pursuing a Manmohan Singh initiative energetically.
The Romans’ version of stoicism is rapidly picking popularity on Instagram — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca are some names that get thrown at you when you fire up your screen.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
The ” Hindutva” brigade neither knows nor understands the difficulties through which Nehru steered India . The people of the North-East are not ethnic Indians and have kindred closeness to Chinese rather than the Hindu North Indian . Was it not Indira Gandhi , who ensured accession of Sikkim to India ? Even the British were not in control at all of the North-East except a few tea growing pockets . As far as Modi-Shah are concerned they can do any thing to cement their political hegemony -morals be damned!
Para at the top of this article talks of some story telling, and photo at the top of this article shows a joker! How does the joker fit in the pack or the story, I don’t know. Very soon no one will care to know, even if the photo shows our respected prime minister Mr Modi touchingly attempting a human interface. Post-CAB, clamour will turn into a crescendo at a lightning speed across the geographies of India : “Mr Modi and Mr Shah, please go back to Gujarat”.
Shekhar may know North East much better than anyone and may have deep fascination for people who worked there earlier. However, as of now, to sort out CAB issue, if ILP is required, so be it. It can be implemented in a manner of ‘slowly hastening’ towards its removal over few more years! If ILP gives some sense of comfort to the local populace there, it is fine. Today mode and means of communication have changed drastically and complete isolation is impossible. Its is legacy issue and one must commend Modi Shah duo for taking concrete steps to sort it out. As you sort out, some other issue opens up due to its complex intertwined nature. Let us not beat Modi Shah every time with Vajpeyi standards; times have changed and we need to clear old cobwebs fast. Ataljee never had such a majority and Advani would have been a different leader if it were so!!
Fascinating story, it is unfortunate, Modi to some extent may understand, but Shah who has zero knowledge about pre post independence history, geography and culture of North Eastern States. India is going to pay heavily for having a home minister.
Ideology is not an old tree to which one should hang one’s self. Modi was opposed to GST as CM. But, as PM, he implemented it. The seat of power teaches many things which the opposition Bench cannot teach. If BJP has changed its view on ILP, and finds it a suitable way to pacify the agitators, it would be perfectly in keeping with common sense. One need not hang on to an ideological opposition of past, which was on a different basis – that of preventing integration. Now, the urgency is to prevent innundation of these regions by migrants.
So, how do we know that Elwin was not a British mole? His actions surely suggest he was one. Just because the lefty pinhead Guha writes his biography does not make him a saint.
The ” Hindutva” brigade neither knows nor understands the difficulties through which Nehru steered India . The people of the North-East are not ethnic Indians and have kindred closeness to Chinese rather than the Hindu North Indian . Was it not Indira Gandhi , who ensured accession of Sikkim to India ? Even the British were not in control at all of the North-East except a few tea growing pockets . As far as Modi-Shah are concerned they can do any thing to cement their political hegemony -morals be damned!
So when the Evangelicals have harvested all the souls there was to harvest in the NE, why still retain it?
Para at the top of this article talks of some story telling, and photo at the top of this article shows a joker! How does the joker fit in the pack or the story, I don’t know. Very soon no one will care to know, even if the photo shows our respected prime minister Mr Modi touchingly attempting a human interface. Post-CAB, clamour will turn into a crescendo at a lightning speed across the geographies of India : “Mr Modi and Mr Shah, please go back to Gujarat”.
Shekhar may know North East much better than anyone and may have deep fascination for people who worked there earlier. However, as of now, to sort out CAB issue, if ILP is required, so be it. It can be implemented in a manner of ‘slowly hastening’ towards its removal over few more years! If ILP gives some sense of comfort to the local populace there, it is fine. Today mode and means of communication have changed drastically and complete isolation is impossible. Its is legacy issue and one must commend Modi Shah duo for taking concrete steps to sort it out. As you sort out, some other issue opens up due to its complex intertwined nature. Let us not beat Modi Shah every time with Vajpeyi standards; times have changed and we need to clear old cobwebs fast. Ataljee never had such a majority and Advani would have been a different leader if it were so!!
Fascinating story, it is unfortunate, Modi to some extent may understand, but Shah who has zero knowledge about pre post independence history, geography and culture of North Eastern States. India is going to pay heavily for having a home minister.
Ideology is not an old tree to which one should hang one’s self. Modi was opposed to GST as CM. But, as PM, he implemented it. The seat of power teaches many things which the opposition Bench cannot teach. If BJP has changed its view on ILP, and finds it a suitable way to pacify the agitators, it would be perfectly in keeping with common sense. One need not hang on to an ideological opposition of past, which was on a different basis – that of preventing integration. Now, the urgency is to prevent innundation of these regions by migrants.
So, how do we know that Elwin was not a British mole? His actions surely suggest he was one. Just because the lefty pinhead Guha writes his biography does not make him a saint.