To hear Rahul Gandhi hurl allegations at the armed forces or brand his colleagues as traitors is to witness a very old game being played with very new, and very dangerous, stakes
In the 1962 general elections for North Mumbai, Nehru inaugurated an ugly precedent of debasing public discourse only in order to get his Man Friday, V.K. Krishna Menon elected
A long form podcast discussing the historical origins of a separatist narrative that posits a separate south Indian country and argues that India is not a country but a federation of states.
In this episode, DVG provides several eye-opening details about how pervasive corruption had become as early as 1949. We learn that the Dehradun Session of the Congress witnessed Nehru offering a pathetic apologia for this rot.
After less than two years of Independence, the legendary D.V.G began an essay series titled "The Congress Ailing" in which he clinically dissected the degeneracy of the Congress and sounded repeated warnings. Today, we shouldn't be surprised that the Congress is headed by someone like Rahul Gandhi.
The recent burst of Rana Ayyub's hate-filled rants against PM Narendra Modi and India on foreign soil must be contextualised in the historical backdrop of the West's continual meddling in India's internal affairs.
The 1967 General Elections of India was a crucial juncture in the history of "independent India." It was the clear line that separated decency from brazenness.