In a veiled attack on the Nehruvian model of growth based on top-down uniform planning, Narendra Modi unveiled a more complex understanding of developmental issues based on the topography of different regions, and said that the diverse problems of the Himalayan ranges, coastal, and desert States require diverse, region-specific solutions. … Read More
Faux fury is being built up over a 21st century drain inspector’s report, this time from the groves of American academia, bewitchingly titled The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin, 2009). Hindu outrage at the ridicule and insult heaped on the community and its gods, and the fallacious understanding of Hindu … Read More
The fierce resistance of Andhra Pradesh MPs to the tabling of the AP Reorganisation Bill, 2013 to bifurcate India’s first linguistic State assumed a new dimension with the use of pepper spray and possibly the flashing of a knife (vehemently denied) within the hallowed precincts of the Lok Sabha, which … Read More
Dismissing the Third Front as a ‘Congress bachao front’ rather than a serious contender for power at the Centre, Narendra Modi exhorted the people of Odisha to vote for complete change as the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections would be held simultaneously in the State. Addressing a mammoth rally at … Read More
The selective violence against Sikhs in 1984 is a festering sore in the national psyche and despite scrupulous collection of facts by eminent citizens from victims and witnesses, no justice has been done. Numerous reports have found that the violence was not spontaneous, as claimed by the authorities, but organised … Read More
Verbal fisticuffs have broken out with Union Finance Minister taking umbrage at the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate referring to him as “recounting Minister” at a public rally in Chennai on Saturday evening, and retaliating that Narendra Modi had staged a “fake encounter” with facts. Claiming that there was no recount … Read More
In his most comprehensive attack on the ruling establishment till date, Narendra Modi accused the Congress-dominated UPA of compromising the nation’s institutional integrity and particularly its security by creating tensions with the armed forces; mangling the federal structure; misusing the office of Governor and browbeating Opposition leaders to keep the … Read More
Escalating his attack on the Congress for the extreme poverty and backwardness of Assam despite being the ruling party at the Centre and in the State for so many years, Narendra Modi said the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s failure to implement the Assam Accord and remove illegal infiltrators from … Read More
The eight Northeastern States are an intrinsic part of the civilisational matrix of India and it is a crying shame that they have been marginalised to the extent that neighbours can encroach our land with impunity; children studying outside their States can be harassed and one even beaten to death … Read More
With Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy sitting in dharna at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Wednesday (February 5), Congress and Telugu Desam Party MPs moving a no-confidence motion against the Manmohan Singh Government on Thursday (February 6) and the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha getting adjourned for the day, it … Read More
