From ahinsa to terror
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is known in history, by and large as being a noble person. In fact the founding fathers of India were all noble individuals, Sans, Sardar Vallabhai Patel.…
Ledger book of Modi’s tenure
AAKAR Patel’s book on Narendra Modi took me to an acerbic poem by Gorakh Pandey, JNU’s resident Marxist poet from the anti-Emergency struggle of 1975-77. The pithy lines uncannily capture…
The fuss about ‘reunification’
PAKISTAN’S Foreign Office offered what sounded like a high-decibel response to the routinely chest-thumping comments by Mohan Bhagwat, the head of India’s right-wing Hindu RSS. He had, not for the first time,…
Modi’s India
Over the years, India has orchestrated a mystical image for itself. It has shrouded itself in the smoke and mirror illusion of a secular, tolerant and democratic country. Before its…
Climate threat over South Asia
HOW badly are Saarc countries already affected by climate change, and what is the hope the damage could be contained before it becomes an unmitigated disaster? With these paramount questions,…
Kashmir: closed chapter?
Recently, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah warned Pakistan that more surgical strikes could be carried out in case of transgressions at the India-Pakistan border. “There is no time to hold…
Dance of death
THERE’S no such thing as a spontaneous act of genocide. You have to plan for it, you have to water the fields of hate to grow a fine crop of…
Profiteers of war
As the competing European colonizers became dependent on tobacco revenue, Napoleon III is known to have quipped, “This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes each year. I…
Interstate tension
SHORT of actually waging a war with armed policemen and limited firearms, two Indian states, Assam and Mizoram, all but provided a spectacle of a warlike situation over a decades-old…
Consultation is key
A MEASURE undertaken by the government of India illustrates how unimaginative governments can be; especially in not reckoning with public reaction. On July 8, the government of India formed the…
