A snub to the BJP
For the first time in the last eight years, the BJP government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has succumbed to foreign pressure and removed two spokespersons for making derogatory…
Hindu nationalist BJP leads in disinformation race
Top officials of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party and an army of its supporters bombarded voters with disinformation as key states went to the polls, specialists say. The five votes…
RSS-BJP split?
THERE is no way the BJP will (or, indeed, can) split from the RSS. Splits are between equals. The BJP is a creature of the RSS. Without it the BJP…
Indian journalists say they intimidated, ostracised if they criticise Modi and the BJP
India has constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and by some measures the biggest and most diverse media industry in the world. But journalists here say they are increasingly facing…
Ugly face of BJP-ruled India
INDIA’S concocted reasons for cancelling the foreign ministers meeting in New York, rather than revealing Imran Khan’s “true face”, as the external affairs ministry statement asserted, exposed the ugly face…
BJP and the poor
On January 9, the upper house of India’s parliament - the Rajya Sabha - passed a constitutional amendment to lift the cap on reservations in education and public sector jobs…
The BJP’s politics
Reportedly, a 55-year-old Muslim man was lynched by a Hindu mob in Bihar in India for allegedly stealing a cow. This is not an isolated incident but in fact a…
Surviving 2019 and the BJP’s hegemony
Eminent political scientist Professor Suhas Palshikar, who was formerly affiliated with Pune University, has come up with a thought-provoking and rather disconcerting long essay in the Economic & Political Weekly.…
Muslims, the BJP and the battle for UP
When in doubt, go back to the basics. That is what the BJP is apparently doing in Uttar Pradesh. Staring at what looks like a humiliating debacle in India’s largest…
BJP’s plans
The results of the recent elections to the five state assemblies of Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry emboldened BJP president Amit Shah to declare that the party…
