Karnataka Election: Majoritarianism Loses to Strong Political Resistance
The BJP’s defeat has proved that Modi can be beaten if influential regional leaders espouse fundamental issues of people.
Rahul Gandhi Getting a Notice for Visiting Delhi University Is a Matter of Deep Concern
The Congress leader apparently trespassed by making an unannounced visit. This incident prompts us to ask if university authorities think only one voice is allowed in educational institutes.
On May 9, What Could Amit Shah Say on Rabindranath Tagore, the High Priest of Harmony?
Despite championing communal, caste and class harmony all his life, Tagore in some of his early work did glorify Maratha, Sikh and Rajput valour against Mughals. These have become favourites of the Hindutva forces.
Indulging in Bluster with China, the Modi Government Is Overplaying its Foreign Policy Hand
Believing its own rhetoric of major power status, and hence China’s peer competitor, India thought it could, like the US, combat, compete and cooperate on its own terms with China. But is that true?
Weaponising History: The Hindutva Communal Project
Those who want a Hindu rashtra as a mirror image of Muslim Pakistan are now imitating how history is taught in Pakistan.
Disturbing Similarities in Modi’s Journey from Godhra, 2002 to Pulwama, 2019
His calculated neglect of the threat to the CRPF has the same origins as his government’s abysmal failure in virtually every department.
Flawed Approach: New Delhi’s China Policy Is Timorous
When it comes to China, the world’s attention may be focused on its threatening military manoeuvres against Taiwan and the visits by various European leaders to Beijing, but for India, it is about deciphering the message China is trying to send with its recent actions.
Pulwama, Modi, Corruption: Full Transcript of Satya Pal Malik’s Interview
Malik, who was governor during the Pulwama terrorist attack, says that the PM has no real problem with corruption. He also says the PM told him not to speak about the Union home ministry’s lapses which led to the devastating attack on soldiers in Pulwama in February 2019.
Muslims Can Live, But They Shouldn’t Look Muslim or Congregate
The message behind the Noida protest by local residents is clear: Muslims are welcome to live in isolation in colonies numerically dominated by Hindus, provided they do not ‘look’ Muslim and do not publicly form a collective.
Has Modi Pushed Indian Democracy Past Its Breaking Point?
With the media and judiciary already under attack, the Prime Minister’s main opponent was just banned from Parliament.