Although inconvenient, Congress' Muslim focus strategy worked for the party because it helped them win the Lok Sabha elections and keep the control of the party within the family.
Why the prime minister is so silent is not so much a question of whether it is better to have a leader who talks too little or one that talks too much. Is his silence doing him that much good?
The problem, dear Ralph Lauren, is not your use of the jhumka, but your dismissal of its history. The list of stolen items is too vast to fight, but we haven't given up on acknowledgement.
In a first during his tenure as High Commissioner to India, Riaz Hamidullah addressed JOCAP consisting of tri-forces officers, as New Delhi & Dhaka step up normalisation efforts.
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 hands of the extreme right wing are stained in blood because they were the root cause of partitition. The Muslims and the Hindus from these wings could not rise above religious differences and insecurities. This resulted in a huge number of people migrating between newly formed countries and people massacarring people from the other faith. These heinous acts were not carried out by the Congress but by frenzied mobs driven by religious hatred, instigated by extreme right wing organizations.
It is these organization that must be brought to account.
This article seems like an anti-hagiography and poor scholarship without nuance or an understanding of the time, place or people and riven by only one ideaology.
By all means, every leader is open to criticism. They are humans driven by their own evolving personalities and thoughts. This criticism therefore must be nuanced to be of value. And Gandhi can be criticized and praised for many of his initiatives and actions. However this has to be truthful.
Publishing this article on the birthday of the one who fought all his life to build bridges between communities is in bad taste.
M K Gandhi and J Nehru ruined India with socialism lock, stock, and barrel. Their hands are stained not only with blood of those killed because of partition, but also due to deaths on account of socialism.
The hands of the extreme right wing are stained in blood because they were the root cause of partitition. The Muslims and the Hindus from these wings could not rise above religious differences and insecurities. This resulted in a huge number of people migrating between newly formed countries and people massacarring people from the other faith. These heinous acts were not carried out by the Congress but by frenzied mobs driven by religious hatred, instigated by extreme right wing organizations.
It is these organization that must be brought to account.
This article seems like an anti-hagiography and poor scholarship without nuance or an understanding of the time, place or people and riven by only one ideaology.
By all means, every leader is open to criticism. They are humans driven by their own evolving personalities and thoughts. This criticism therefore must be nuanced to be of value. And Gandhi can be criticized and praised for many of his initiatives and actions. However this has to be truthful.
Publishing this article on the birthday of the one who fought all his life to build bridges between communities is in bad taste.
M K Gandhi and J Nehru ruined India with socialism lock, stock, and barrel. Their hands are stained not only with blood of those killed because of partition, but also due to deaths on account of socialism.