Monthly Archives: November 1990

It is as easy to empathise with, and indeed even admire, Chandra Shekhar as it is to predict that the government he has chosen to set up and head may not last more than a few months. The first point can be taken care of quite quickly. If VP Singh … Read More →

It is not particularly surprising either that ‘secular’ nationalism and ‘Hindu’ nationalism should be treated by a number of Westernized intellectuals as if they were polar opposites or that their hostility towards the principal exponent of Hindu nationalism, the Bharatiya Janata Party, should have become unusually sharp and bitter in … Read More →