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Badri RainaIndian Express |
As narratives are being floated with the obliging connivance of the captive media, each day is proving to be rather too long in current Indian...
As the electoral bonds corruption issue unravels embarrassingly for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Narendra Modi, unsurprisingly, seems to have...
Have you ever heard of a Republican or Democratic senator or member of the US House of Congress dumping their parties and crossing over to the other?...
This piece was first published on The India Cable – a premium newsletter from The Wire & Galileo Ideas – and has been republished here. To...
In the words of the English romantic poet who died a young man full of dreams, namely Shelley, the INDIA alliance rally in historic Patna was a...
The INDIA alliance may not be as dead after all as the Godi news channels – (are there any others now?) – never tire of blaring at us. Come to...
Alas, all good things must come to an end. The so-cosy bonds between well-known, albeit nameless, benefactors and Johnny-come-lately nation-builders...
Like it or not, you have to admire Narendra Modi’s latest monarchical gambit. At the touch of a finger tip, four dead and gone former adversaries...
The Trump-India moment is here, make no mistake. Elections are to be held but only if the establishment will win. There are a few still among the...
Yet another episode of unscrupulous trickery has materialised in Bihar. The general who had been gathering forces ostensibly to save the realm has,...
In an essay written some years ago, I had contended that there may be no historical inevitability, after all, that capitalism will be slain by the...
Predictably, the Sangh, now busy at the temple site in Ayodhya, has begun lambasting the Indian National Congress for its refusal to attend the...
Kindly recall that I had, in my last column, as a Ram-fearing man, expressed anguish at Modi’s call to us to celebrate Diwali on January 22, the day...
These are the days of bold political reclamation. Three principal axes of India’s mainstream politics seek centre-stage at perhaps the most fraught...
Post-Modernist historians like Hayden White have argued that there are no stable significations in the world we live in. Ergo, the so-called stable...
Five odd months before elections to the Lok Sabha are due, the Congress party has lost three assembly elections in the Hindi heartland. Despite the...
It is a mournful time in Bharat. Our trusted partner in the Quad has stabbed us in the bat and in the ball. That too in a stadium named after the...
Desperate times invite desperate remedies. Narendra Modi has quickly comprehended the moment. As of old, the Sanatan agenda of forging...
When word came that October 31 was celebrated by state authorities in Jammu and Kashmir as ‘Union Territory Foundation Day,’ I must confess to...
Two cheers for the Election Commission (EC) of India for gathering the courage to disallow the ruling party from taking out ‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp...
So the unimpeded bloodbath continues apace. According to latest reports from several news agencies, more than 700 Gazan civilians were killed on...
Piety is now a fatally political thing, make no mistake. No infrastructure that may have been spawned over the last few years projects as ruthlessly...
While ideologues down South, whose position with respect to the social content of Sanatan Dharma is ancient knowledge, are currently being lambasted...