In January 1959, DVG wrote two acerbic letters to the then Mysore Chief Minister B.D. Jatti and sent its copies to the Home Minister, G.B. Pant. It triggered a chain of bureaucratic correspondence between Delhi and Bangalore. The episode offers brilliant and eye-opening insights into recent history.
This is the full text of a letter that DVG wrote in 1971 to a disconcerted young college student seeking advice on entering public life.
In this episode, DVG gives us a firsthand account of the tyrannical growth of the Congress High Command culture almost immediately after independence.
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 aftermath of the Indian Emergency birthed a frightening growth of separatist forces who acquired enormous political clout.
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor's recent bravado against the BJP only reveals his desperation
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s vision of and eulogy to the Indian Civil Services in his inspirational speech on April 21, 1947 to the first batch of the Indian Administrative Services needs repetition if only to underscore how farsighted he was: Your predecessors were brought up in the traditions in which
This essay is more in the nature of an attempt. To examine the socio-political and cultural narrative about India that was set in motion roughly around the colonial period. This narrative continues to remain profoundly Adharmic. More dangerously, the Hindus don’t own this narrative about themselves. Even worse,
Nothing excites our Red-drenched comrades, now masquerading as liberals, as much as large-scale suffering. Larger the scale, greater are the swirls of the romantic and dreamy ideological mists that sway like diaphanous, tantalising curtains before their eyes. Their excitement is almost sexual, a heady tumescence anticipating a bloody
Your Honourable Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee, At the outset, please do not mistake me for addressing you thus. It was a reminder to myself to congratulate you because it was in your tenure that you got rid of the colonially hungover protocol of using “Excellency” while addressing the President. Please