If the BJP leadership has decided to downplay the Ram Janambhoomi temple issue, as appears to be the case, it has been well advised. If it has not so decided, it would be well advised to do so. Mr L K Advani said more than once before the fateful December … Read More
It is neither possible nor necessary for us to take a position on the charge that Iran is assisting terrorist activities in Egypt, Algeria, Jordan and other Arab countries directly and through Sudan. Not possible because no one has produced the evidence so far, though Cairo claims to possess it; … Read More
Rao is not responsible for the rise of BJP as Arjun Singh would have us believe, says Girilal Jain Mr P V Narasimha Rao’s leadership stands challenged openly and explicitly, leaving him no choice but to fight back to the bitter end. The days of so-called consensus politics in … Read More
Students of world affairs would be familiar with attempts at psycho-histories of Hitler, Mao Zedong, Stalin and some other individual leaders. But psychoanalysis of the phenomenon of political parties as such is rare. An Italian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Dr Pierro Rocchini, has done just that. And apparently he is well … Read More
The logic behind the change of guard in Srinagar is far from clear. Mr Girish Saxena had done and was doing an excellent job as governor in an extremely difficult situation. Indeed, things were beginning to turn around. Intelligence had clearly improved, enabling security forces to nab important terrorists. Ordinary … Read More
THE public discourse not only in India but also in the West is currently dominated by the concept of multi-culturalism with the result that it is not recognised that self-conscious minorityism, as in the case of our Muslim countrymen, is a form of apartheid in reverse and that its consequences … Read More
Since I do not follow developments at Aligarh carefully, I have not known of the existence and activities of the New Aligarh Movement and the New Servants of India Society. So my observations relate solely to the ‘document’ they have prepared and circulated on “the grave political and moral crisis … Read More
