There is an irony in the tectonic upheavals currently besieging the BJP. A party that once rode the crest of a national political quest to give Indic civilization due honour in the public arena is itself convulsed by a clash of ideologies. An elemental struggle is on between those who … Read More
Secularism today ranks foremost among India’s burden of bad ideas, a term coined by Prof. Shiva Bajpai to debunk the ill-founded Aryan Invasion Theory, which held academics in thrall for a century before being flung into the dustbin of history. The term secular entered India’s political vocabulary as a device … Read More
BJP President L.K. Advani’s startling endorsement of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s secular credentials is less damaging than his hallucinations about the common civilizational heritage of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh – successor states of undivided India. This politically popular but untrue dogma of ‘one people’ divided by machiavellian politicians needs to … Read More
After France, the Netherlands, and certainly Great Britain. Europe now seems set to vote with her feet against the European Union, sacrificing continental fraternity for a more familial national unity. Liberty, clarion cry of the French Revolution, returned to the centrestage to rescue her children from a stifling economic inequality … Read More
Emboldened at the ease with which the community has been able to secure fifty percent reservations in Aligarh Muslim University, the Jamiat Ulema e Hind has asked UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi for proportional reservations for Muslims in Parliament and the State Legislatures. Far from rebuffing this dangerous overture, which instantly … Read More
