All animals are equal. But some are more equal than others – George Orwell, Animal Farm Recent events involving two popular film stars have brought home this banal truth somewhat forcefully, and with it, the more acute concern that we may no longer be running a democracy, but rather, an … Read More
Now that a major politician like former Defence Minister Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav has taken the lead to help articulate a fitting national response to the butchery of over a hundred Hindu pilgrims in one blood-drenched night, the Union Government would do well to take the nation into confidence about … Read More
The alacrity with which the Chief Justice of India, Mr AS Anand, has now cleared the appointment of Mr Justice BM Lal as chairman of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission, would indicate that he wishes to put the unseemly controversy with the former law minister Mr Ram Jethmalani … Read More
Girilal Jain believed clinical analysis, not emotional indignation, can explain the shifts which led to the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. This is something that eludes ‘secular’ analysts, argues Sandhya Jain INDIAN ANALYSTS have been so intoxicated with the concept of secularism as tacit parity between Hindus and Muslims and a ‘composite’ … Read More
The unfinished issue at Ayodhya has once again returned to the centre stage, and as before, reflects the intransigence of sections of the political elite on the issue of Hindu reassertion and the nations’ foundational ethos. What is also increasingly evident is that the Muslim community is essentially directionless on … Read More
Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s decision to incorporate a meeting with Pope John Paul II into the itinerary of his European Union summit last week was hasty, unnecessary, and unwise, and can be expected to have a long-term deleterious impact on this country’s sovereignty and national interests. What is more, it … Read More
It is a tribute to the success of India’s uniquely perverted secularism that only Muslim leaders and intellectuals have seen fit to respond to Mohammad Azharuddin’s claim that he is being accused in the international match-fixing scandal on account of belonging to the minority community. Cornered in the rising tide … Read More
The recent controversy over the RSS conducting training camps in Punjab has brought the issue of the nation’s defining ethos to the fore once again. As was only to be expected, the vociferous proponents of the so-called ‘composite culture’ (an euphemism for the cultural supremacy of Islam) observed a deafening … Read More
As the Congress flounders for direction and leadership, there is little recognition that the real crisis is not so much Ms Sonia Gandhi’s political acts of omission and commission, as the yawning disjunction between her true face and the rhetoric of her spin-doctors. This is why the “crisis of confidence” … Read More
Several unresolved issues of India’s nationhood have coalesced in the recent incident of the beating up of two senior army officers in the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, and the episode will no doubt have a decisive influence on all future discourse on nationalism. For one, it has exposed the naked … Read More
