Insights, analysis and commentary mostly on current happenings in India and occasionally geopolitics
Minister for Women and Child Development and Empowerment of Differently Abled and Senior Citizens, Government of Karnataka, Smt Jayamala must be a happy woman. Even as the toxic losers’ formula of 38 + 78 was concocted overnight by the destructive duo of the Congress and JD(S) in the recently concluded
If the performance of key ministries in the Narendra Modi government is evaluated beginning with the worst, the Human Resources Development ministry tops the charts. If it is some consolation, one must laud HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar for coming out in the open and admitting that “not a single history
Maoists and Naxals are national security threats. Discursive confusion arises at the precise moment one forgets this basic premise. Look at what’s happening in the immediate aftermath of the well-deserved and long-pending arrests of the five Maoists: Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves and Arun
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
In adversity, he was a unifier, in victory, magnanimous, in defeat, equanimous, and in exit, gracious. Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This is his finest hour. Mesmerising Orator A late rainy monsoon evening, 1991. The familiar venue of the National College grounds in Bangalore was overflowing, throbbing with energetic anticipation awaiting the
If fortune favours the brave and misery loves company, misery needs to heave a permanent sigh of relief. It has crown-prince-forever-in-waiting, Rahul Gandhi for constant company. In a recent podcast with a friend over the grave subject of the bizarre rigadoon that Rahul Gandhi performed live
Here is a brief list before we begin. * Heartrending stories of utter destitution inside a slum and/or on the pavements? Check. * Soul crushing tales of a poor AIDS or terminally-ill patient rotting away in a Government hospital? Check. * Tales of police brutality and bureaucratic corruption endured by a
A commentary on the child trafficking racket run by Mother Teresa's NGO, Missionaries of Charity
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
This column is authored by Kashyap Naik, a practising lawyer. In a recent speech during August 2017 at Bangalore, Amit Shah, the national president of BJP, interestingly cited a few fundamentals for a political party: “The worth and credibility of a political party is mainly determined by three factors, (a)