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ENDS AND MEANS: KILLING THE MAHATMA
“At the heart of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence, was his belief...that means and ends are inseparable, and that in fact the means themselves shape the ends. He believed unworthy means...
INDIAN POLITICS: IT'S KETTLES AND POTS AGAIN!
Political alliances in India have long ceased to surprise anyone. Cut through all the lofty talk of principles and values, and the sick pattern remains the same. Enemies become bosom pals overnight, ...
CONGRESS: FROM SICKLE TO CYCLE
Look at the irony. Perhaps the only thing about the UPA government that will be remembered and that it can proudly claim as an achievement in the five years that it has been in power is the only decis...
NUCLEAR DEAL POLITICS: SINGH IS KINGG
The endless politicking on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal, signed by the Government of India, eyes wide open, in 2005, has delayed its operationalisation to a point beyond which the deal will be as good as ...
COMMUNAL COMMIES AND KASHMIRI MUSLIMS: INDIA NEEDS TO BE FIRM
Two news items this month have brought to centre stage the blatantly communal outlook of Kashmiri speaking Muslims and ‘Chinese speaking’ Communists. First, there was a news item that Muslims ha...
LOOKING FOR INDIA'S OBAMA IN HARVARD!
Barrack Hussein Obama’s vertical rise from nowhere to within striking distance of the White House has mesmerised the whole world and changed many unfavourable opinions about the US almost overnight ...
GOVERNANCE AND THE POLITICS OF PETROL PRICES
In an earlier post about the defeat of the Congress party in Karnataka, I had written about how Prime Minister Manmohan Singh(mms) had been made almost into a small adult mms clip which is to be viewe...
CONGRESS DEFEATED; DECEPTION CONTINUES
The deception continues. Only the target of this obdurate, mindless deception remains somewhat unclear. Despite facing one more of the almost countless successive defeats over the last two years, the ...
KARNATAKA: ELEPHANT CRUSHES HAND; LOTUS BLOOMS
The rout of the Congress party in election after election continues. In its eleventh straight defeat, the once dominant political party has been defeated in the Karnataka assembly elections, the resul...
WAR ON TERROR: INDIA REMAINS PARALYSED
It was on November 23, 2007 that a terrorist outfit calling itself the Indian Mujahideen first claimed responsibility for a series of blasts in various UP courts which claimed 15 lives. The same outf...
THE REAL SP THAT RAHUL NEEDS
The Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) have, as was evident despite denials, rediscovered their similarities and compatibilities in Uttar Pradesh (UP). In the face of the triumphant march of the ge...
MAYAWATI'S 'T's TROUNCE CONGRESS'S 'R's
“Tilak, Tarazoo aur Talwar, inko maro jootey chaar.” This was the clarion call originally given by Mayawati’s BSP to awaken Dalits to challenge their thousands of years old oppression by the thr...
THE 'CLEANSING' BATTLE FOR DELHI BEGINS.
The knives are out and the battle has now truly been joined in UP.The rumblings had started some months back, after the Congress was badly mauled in the state elections that followed the one in UP las...
MAYAWATI'S MANNA: CONGRESS’S CONFUSION, TIKAIT’S TAUNT
Recent political developments in UP have been perplexing, to say the least. Alarmed by Mayawati’s rise and rise, her opponents, instead of developing coherent strategies to clip her growing wings, h...
CONGRESS-SP, BJP-BSP: FULL CIRCLE IN UP?
Only last year, the Congress and the Samajwadi Party were on the same side of the fence in UP. But, months before the elections, the Congress became the latter’s sworn enemy, vowing to defeat it and...
LOAN WAIVERS, SUICIDES AND FIVE STAR MEALS.
P Chidamabaram, a sane, educated and sensible politician, has done what the ‘illiterate’ Devi Lal had once done, to literally buy votes. In the Union Budget presented on February 29, 2008, he took...
THE VORTEX OF COMPETITIVE PANDERING
The Prime Minister questions whether “ a multi-party model where parties with varying national reach and many with a limited sub-national reach is capable of providing the unity of purpose that nati...
CONGRESS PARTY FOR DALIT PM NOW!
Mayawati’s march to Delhi has the Congress really rattled. The way the party has got into a reactive panic mode is only going to strengthen Mayawati and make her reach that chair in Delhi even faste...
MAYAWATI: SPOILER OR SAVIOUR?
Mayawati’s hug of death is finally beginning to choke the Congress party. Before reading on, please carefully go through what I had written way back in August last year. In the post entitled "M...
CAN RAHUL DO A GANDHI?
Sometimes a visual conveys reality more tellingly than the thousands of words written to obfuscate it. A few months back, both Rahul Gandhi and Shahrukh Khan were watching a cricket match. Rahul G...