For 40 years, Amit Shah has been at Narendra Modi’s side – his confidant, consigliere and enforcer. Today he is India’s second-most powerful man, and he is reshaping the country in radical ways Atul Dev A defining feature of life in India today is the suffocating atmosphere of menace and threat to critics of the… Read More ‘He likes scaring people’
Death Valley in California is the hottest place in the world and the highest temperature recorded there is 54.4 degrees Celsius, exactly 1.5 degrees hotter than Mungeshpur’s Wednesday reading. The difference is that about three hundred people live the year round in Death Valley while Delhi’s National Capital Region is home to thirty million people.… Read More Death Valley Beckons
To respect God and to pretend to do that for votes are two different things: Vipin Kumar Tripathi Sameer Yasir One recent morning, Roop Rekha Verma, an 80-year-old peace activist and former university leader, walked through a north Indian neighborhood prone to sectarian strife and parked herself near a tea shop. From her sling bag,… Read More Leaflet by leaflet, a few aging activists fight India’s tide of bigotry
Bharat Bhushan Bharat Bhushan Discusses Indian Media ‘Misinformation’ During 2024 Elections India’s general elections, which kicked off on April 19, will end on June 1, and see the formation of the South Asian country’s next government following a vote count on June 4. The results will have significance – not only for the world’s largest… Read More Bharat Bhushan Discusses Indian Media ‘Misinformation’ During 2024 Elections
Narendra Modi deliberately combines Hindu rituals in his public persona for the political purpose of appealing to the Hindu masses. Bharat Bhushan Opposition parties have objected to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to meditate at Dhyan Mandapam at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, and have approached the Election Commission of India to ban any telecast of… Read More Significance of Modi’s meditation at Kanyakumari
NAMRATA RAJU The ghosts of migrant workers haunting the facades of the buildings they once constructed makes for striking imagery. It is also true that the invisibilisation of migrant workers is just that extreme. Whether in literary fiction such as Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People, or scholarship like anthropologist Andrea Wright’s Between Dreams and Ghosts, it… Read More From Guest Workers to Ghost Workers: The Electoral Exclusion of India’s Migrants
Apparent manipulation needs to be avoided in the best interests of the military and the country. Lt Gen Harwant Singh (retd) – Former Deputy Chief of the Army Staff THE Chief of the Army Staff, Gen Manoj Pande, who was to retire on May 31, has been given one month’s extension by the Appointments Committee… Read More Army Chief’s one-month extension sends out wrong signal
जनमत कभी विचारधारा विहीन नहीं हो सकता लेकिन हमारे अंदर दार्शनिक साहस न हो तो हम खुद को नष्ट कर लेंगे दिलीप सिमियन This essay first appeared in Outlook magazine on April 11, under the title The Crisis of Ideology क्या हम उस युग में पहुंच चुके हैं जिसमें विचारधारा का अंत हो चुका है?… Read More विचारधारा का संकट
The enormity of Bharatiya Janata Party made me pull the lever for Aam Aadmi Party. But the calculus of the lesser evil as a guide to political action isn’t available to everyone equally Mukul Kesavan I voted as I always do, in a government secondary school close to where I live. Delhi was scorching when… Read More V Day musings
by Rakesh Shukla Raja bola raat haiMantri bola raat haiSantri bola raat haiYe subah subah subah ki baat hai : – Gorakh Pandey (King said its nightMinister said it is nightSentry said it was nightThis happening in the morning) It is universally recognized that plastic surgery and organ replacement were first performed in India. The evidence… Read More ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ – The Grandiose Self
