BJP’s scare-mongering over foreign funds
A journalist isn’t generally expected to comment on news in which s/he figures as an actor. But I’m compelled to do so in respect of a report by India’s Intelligence…
BJP is in, what next?
After 30 years, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has again won the majority in the lower house of India's parliament and Narendra Modi will soon be sworn in as the new…
RSS, BJP & Modi
Narendra Modi’s anointment as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate shows that while the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has tightened its grip over its political front (the BJP) Modi…
Will the BJP lose by gaining?
When the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ordered the Bharatiya Janata Party to nominate Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate six months ago, neither organisation could have imagined that this would…
The Congress rout and the BJP gain
The main message from the Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi assembly elections is clear. The Congress stands routed and faces further decline. The Bharatiya Janata Party has made impressive…
The BJP woos Muslims
Not long ago, Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for the office of India’s prime minister, famously refused to accept a skullcap that was…
The BJP`s dilemma
Whatever else Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, accomplishes in his fiercely ambitious drive to lead the Bharatiya Janata Party and to become prime minister of India, he has succeeded…
The BJP`s dilemma
WHATEVER else Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, accomplishes in his fiercely ambitious drive to lead the Bharatiya Janata Party and to become prime minister of India, he has succeeded…
A BJP-driven U-turn?
Looking at the U-turn in Indo-Pak relations, January seems a strange month. The change perplexed everyone, because throughout 2012, a perception was built that these belligerent neighbours had finally accepted…
A fractured BJP
He Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the only political party to have been established and run by an outside body, the militant Hindu communal body the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).…
