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A False Step

Pranab  Mukherjee has accepted the invitation to visit the RSS headquarters at Nagpur to address the cadre. To quote RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, “Mukherjee was graceful enough to accept the invitation.” Mukherjee accepting the invite is a surprise because the place never put up the picture of Mahatma Gandhi because he represented an ideology of…

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Secularism and the State: Categorising the Nehru Model

Anil Nauriya The “Nehru Models”: The Historical Nehru Model and the Posthumous Nehru Model In most circles where opinion making on behalf of minorities takes place, one of the reasons for appreciation of Jawaharlal Nehru’s approach towards the minorities generally is his statement that majority communalism, that is, sectarianism, is more dangerous than minority communalism….

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The Enigma Called Gandhi

Politics in independent India has shown a tremendous obsession with Gandhi.  Khadi, worn by most politicians, protests through Satyagraha, hunger strikes, voluntarily courting arrest, civil disobedience, all carry the indelible stamp of the politics practised by Gandhi during the course of the national movement. Most rituals and symbols of Indian politics today emanate from Gandhi….

Re-emergence of Regional Parties Bothers BJP

The regional parties have again a taken a centre stage in the politics of the country. The assumption that the BJP led by Narendra Modi may politically marginalise the regional forces has come under serious doubt after the results of Karnataka assembly polls and the bypolls across the country. They have demonstrated the re-emergence of…

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Chavismo: Part III | Chavismo Will Be Socialist Or It Will Cease To Exist

The third part of a seven part article by Marco Teruggi on Chavismo, the ongoing socialist revolutionary project in Venezuela. Marco Teruggi ‘Made in socialism.’ That phrase resonated a lot in Venezuela a few years ago. It was on chocolates, yoghurts, oils, posters, embedded in a heart logo and the inevitable red five-pointed star. Every…

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Breaths of Fresh Air from a Pontifical Mouth of the South

Earl Bousquet Ever since becoming maximum leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics in 2013, Pope Francis has not minced words to take strong positions on major international issues. But on the eve of a visit to his native South American continental homeland, he was called upon to speak out loudly—and act strongly—against men of…