Insight

Insights, analysis and commentary mostly on current happenings in India and occasionally geopolitics

Essays

Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel:  Intellectual Kshatriyas who Wielded the Pen like a Sabre

Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel: Intellectual Kshatriyas who Wielded the Pen like a Sabre

Wake up, folks, wake up! As intimidated as you are by the fear of going against the stream and looking racist [communal] you don’t understand or don’t want to understand that a Reverse Crusade is on the march. As blinded as you are by the myopia and the

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The Civilisational Erosion of Bengal: What can be Done about it?

The Civilisational Erosion of Bengal: What can be Done about it?

In his election rally today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee a speed breaker in the state’s development. While that is perfectly accurate, one actually needs to ask a fundamental question: how can any nation or state or people even tolerate much less live under

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The Lutyens Patriots: In a Comic

The Lutyens Patriots: In a Comic

Just as how in our routine lives, adversity is the surest test of a person’s value system, so is war the surest test of a citizen’s commitment to the country. Presenting a comic strip of the Lutyens Patriots in the wake of India’s brilliant counteroffensive against Pakistan

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How Indira Gandhi Systematically Targetted Ramnath Goenka

How Indira Gandhi Systematically Targetted Ramnath Goenka

Read Part 1: How Ramnath Goenka Outwitted Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at her Own Game: A Preface Does the name Paul von Hindenburg mean anything? Does it even figure in the proverbial, “popular imagination” across the globe? In fact, does it even evoke any reaction in a majority section of

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The Journalism of D V Gundappa in a Post-Journalism World

The Journalism of D V Gundappa in a Post-Journalism World

Nothing should disgust us anymore. Not even this headline and the accompanying puff piece written by ace dynasty toady, Sanjay K Jha. That the slobbering piece written by the slobbering dynasty toady is completely along expected lines given how he’s the living embodiment of the proverb, “more loyal than

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Kalyan Singh: A Civilisational Hero for all Seasons and Reasons

Kalyan Singh: A Civilisational Hero for all Seasons and Reasons

Kalyan Singh remains one of the towering heroes of the Rama Janmabhoomi Movement and an unswerving devotee of Sri Ramachandra

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The RSS and the Communists in 2018: A Rough Retrospection

The RSS and the Communists in 2018: A Rough Retrospection

The contrast cannot be starker, and the trajectory, more contrarian. Every parallel train track typically ends in a wall. The childhood image of train tracks abruptly, almost rudely, suddenly disappearing inside a wall in Kanyakumari railway station comes to mind. As the curtains are fast falling on 2018, this analogy

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Christian Michel: The Latest Face of the Venomous Hydra-Headed Dynasty Scam Pit

Christian Michel: The Latest Face of the Venomous Hydra-Headed Dynasty Scam Pit

First, there was only Bofors. But ever since the UPA returned to power in 2009, we lost count. This pretty much sums up the full story of the Congress Dynasty’s scamster friend Christian Michel who was recently extradited from Dubai and is now reluctantly singing before the CBI. Quite

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Why the Narendra Modi Government must Establish a Body to Investigate US Religious Interference in India

Why the Narendra Modi Government must Establish a Body to Investigate US Religious Interference in India

The death of the missionary and soul-predator John Allen Chau, a US citizen should be viewed for what it is: the latest in a long line of religious interference by the US on Indian territory. And the Sentinelese tribe has best demonstrated Colonel Jessup’s memorable dialogue in A

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Why the Durbari Journalists Invited by Pakistan should Never Return

Why the Durbari Journalists Invited by Pakistan should Never Return

Among the other despicable traits shared by the Incurables, I forgot to mention perhaps one of the more distinguishing ones: an errr… incurable lust for the global Jihad factory headquarters: Pakistan. Is it merely coincidental that the anagram of “lust” is “slut?” Nowhere is this trait more on display and

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