Blogs

• Dear Home Minister Amit Shah, Did You Study Any History at Scho

  Posted February 16, 2020

  I have often been forced to wonder whether our redoubtable Home Minister, Shri Amit Shah, paid attention in history class at school. His latest pronouncements on our country’s historical past makes me seriously doubt whether he did. In an appearance in New Delhi on 1...

• Am I a closet Sanghi for mourning demise of an RSS man? Somethi

  Posted February 12, 2020

  My more than 30 years of being at odds with BJP and the Hindutva movement was irrelevant to my critics. For them, I had revealed my 'true colours'. If one ever had any doubt about the extent to which political polarisation has swept across India, allow me to offer myse...

• What Happened to India?

  Posted January 8, 2020

  The India the world once celebrated – the world’s fastest-growing free-market liberal democracy – seems to be giving way to a violent, intolerant, illiberal autocracy. It is a turn that was long in the making, reflecting the impact of eight major factors on the country'...

• The claims of CAA campaigner-in-chief Amit Shah fact-checked

  Posted December 24, 2019

  The  Citizenship Amendment Act continues to spawn protests across India. Legal scholars say that the religious test for citizenship under the new law violates the basic structure of the Constitution. Protesters see it as an assault on India’s pluralism that threatens it...

• Narendra Modi’s Second Partition of India

  Posted December 18, 2019

  Democratic India has never had a religious test for citizenship – until now. And the new amendment to the citizenship law approved by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is just one more brick in an edifice of official Islamophobic bigotry. NEW DELHI – At a time when Ind...

• Now Modi govt has proved that it not only talks like Pakistan, it thinks and acts like it

  Posted December 13, 2019

  In  a flourish of the brute majority the Bharatiya Janata Party enjoys in the Lok Sabha, after a marathon seven-hour debate that went past midnight, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill or CAB was passed in Lok Sabha Monday with 311 voting in favour, and the opposition, des...

• I want a New India where Rahul Bajaj can invest & speak fearlessly to govt

  Posted December 7, 2019

  The  recent statement by Rahul Bajaj, one of India’s senior industrialists and chairman of the Bajaj Group, has blown the lid off something that most of the establishment was prepared to talk about only in whispers. At the Economic Times Awards event on 30 November wher...