Category: Opinion
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Congress lost the ‘will’ to survive in May 2014
Congress seemed to have lost the will to survive as an effectual political party on May 16, 2014 when the Lok Sabha election results were announced and Narendra Modi’s BJP bagged 282 seats out of 543 while Congress was reduced to a rump with 44 seats, not enough even to claim the post of Leader…
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Nitish loses will to act in crisis situation
“Why has Chief Minister Nitish Kumar become inactive when he is supposed to be super active with the Covid-19 playing havoc in Bihar?” This is the paramount question occupying the mind of those who have watched Nitish over the years. The question has gained ground because he loathed inactivity. In crisis situations, he acted with…
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Hagia Sofia and Babri Mosque: Majority appeasement towards one-party rule of theocracy
The historic Hagia Sophia in Turkey’s Istanbul has been reconverted from a museum to mosque by the country’s Islamist-nationalist president and ruling AKP leader Recep Tiyyip Erdogan early this month. It has hit the headlines across the world including India since it has a big impact in global politics. As fanatics of all hues have…
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BJP’s gamble on Scindia puts the party in a difficult situation in two states
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s central leadership gambled in Madhya Pradesh when it gave too much importance to Jyotiraditya Scindia by persuading the State unit to induct as many as 11 of his supporters (none of them a member of the Assembly) in the 34-strong Council of Ministers and allot all of them important portfolios…
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Epilogue: A Requiem for the Dreams of Lost Generations and Hope for a New Dawn
I had begun the overview of the history of Indo-China conflict with the question: Can a student of history afford a sense of sadness over the missed historical opportunities for making another world possible? I admit that my melancholia has deepened while revisiting those days of miscarriage of high hopes for a decolonized world free…
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गुना की यह तस्वीर, बच्चों की गोद में बाप की नहीं हैं, भारत की मरी हुई आत्मा और जनता की है- रविश कुमार
गुना के कलेक्टर और एस एस पी को डिसमिस कर देना चाहिए। ये बीमारी ऐसे ठीक नहीं होगी। सदियों से घुसी हुई है और आज़ादी के बाद भी बढ़ती जा रही है। ये अफ़सर कुर्सी पर जाकर करते क्या हैं? क्यों नहीं तंत्र को सत्ता के ग़ुरूर से मुक्त करते हैं, वहाँ पहुँच कर भी…
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यूपी में कोरोना: आंकड़ों का खेल
प्रबंधन और प्रचार, दोनों कला है। दोनों में आंकड़ों का खेल है। इसका दिलचस्प उदाहरण तब देखने को मिला। जब प्रधानमंत्री ने ब्राजील की तुलना में यूपी में कोरोना मामले कम होने पर संतोष व्यक्त किया। यह प्रचार कला का उत्कृष्ट उदाहरण है। श्री मोदी ने आज अपने संसदीय क्षेत्र वाराणसी के एनजीओ प्रतिनिधियों से…
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सोनिया गांधी के पास तीन ऑडियो, एक में सचिन पायलट बात कर रहे भाजपा के साथ मिल कर गहलोत सरकार गिराने की
वरिष्ठ पत्रकार पंकज चतुर्वेदी मानते हैं के अब जो तस्वीर सामने आ रही है उसमें सचिन पायलट का कांग्रेस से निकालने पर सहानुभूति होना नहीं चाहिए। वो इसके लिए कई तथ्य रख रहे अपने लेख में। 1. सोनिया गांधी के पास तीन से अधिक ऑडियो और एक वीडियो है जिसमें सचिन पायलट, रमेश मीणा और…
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India-China conflict: A Renegade’s Reading
Mao’s conquest of Tibet and Xinjiang happened during the high days of Sino-Soviet camaraderie. But the relation between communist giants nosedived after the Indo-China border war in 1962 as Soviets blamed Chinese leadership for it. Moscow had long considered Nehru’s India as an essential ally to Moscow-led Socialist Bloc and accused Mao’s China of opportunism…
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Bihar DGP: A Mystic in Uniform
It was a hot summer evening in 1983. The sun had faded out but there was no relief. The table fans creaked and blew hot air; our rooms at the PG Hostel Ranighat had turned into ovens with its walls baked in the blaze for the whole day. Gupteshwar Pandey in his shorts came out…