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Saturday, November 2, 2024
TopicAtal Bihari Vajpayee

Topic: Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“Museum wahin banayenge!”

All politics is symbolic, and the BJP is replacing realpolitik with symbolic politics, especially in Ayodhya, by trying to build a museum.

When proxy comes to shove

That attack is on Arun Jaitley, but the target is Narendra Modi — so watch the next four weeks to see how the PM responds.

Confessions of a Shakhahari

Raised on a diet of RSS pedagogy at a Shishu Mandir, the writer looks at what it means when Nagpur 'takes the class' of the govt.

The man who got it right: Poet, pragmatist, always political

Atal Bihari Vajpayee's greatest, durable legacy is to show that India is best governed with a large heart.

Atal Modi vs Rajiv Rahul

Only two leaders have the strength, appeal & political wherewithal to break the two-decade stalemate in Indian politics with a big new idea: Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi.

Vajpayees Atal

Here is one way you can put the life of Brajesh Mishra in context. If you asked the top leadership of this UPA government...

Two PMs, one big idea

Manmohan Singh is not a mass leader or public speaker to rival Atal Bihari Vajpayee. But what Vajpayee had by way of political instinct, Singh has in intellect.

Purush versus Parivar

f Vajpayee is to be repudiated for defying political ideology, Narasimha Rao was made to pay for not kowtowing to his party’s first family. The Family is to Congress what Hindutva is to RSS.

A Bharatiya Janata Pity

Perhaps such is the bitterness at losing power, so powerful the need to live in denial, that BJP has begun to lose its balance at all levels, and, obviously in case of the Naqvi/Naidu types.

Mr Vajpayee’s high ground, Mrs Gandhi’s road ahead

The dramatic electoral verdict is as much about anti-incumbency as about the rising expectations of our voter.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.