Were it not so obnoxious, it would have been easy to brush aside poll-time bilge of who is a real Hindu; what ‘gotra‘ Rahul Gandhi is; whether Congress is becoming …
Harish Khare is easily among India’s preeminent political journalists, someone who knows both politics and journalism. Doctorate from the Deendayal Upadhyay Institute for International Research and Studies, also known as Yale, …
For a party which demanded Manmohan Singh‘s resignation every hour of the day, for a party which sent a Union minister to wail about the killings of RSS workers in …
The stand-out aspect of the ongoing bigotry and hatred of the white supremacists in America is the response of its thought leaders: in the arts and in business in particular, …
As India and Pakistan trudge towards the 70th anniversary of their creation, the comparisons are beginning to flow on how well (or badly) the two countries have done vis-a-vis each …
Harish Khare in The Tribune: “On August 5, an election was held to decide the new occupant of 6 Maulana Azad Road in New Delhi. This house is the designated …
In a cash-strapped election season which has seen “corporate interest and media ownership” converge, it is arguable if Narendra Modi is getting a free run. Every whisper of the Gujarat …
The political psychologist Ashis Nandy‘s “casteist” comments at the Jaipur literature festival—“the fact is that most of the corrupt come from Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs“; this is an “equalising force” …
After tearing down every one of Manmohan Singh‘s ministers, “Team Anna” has trained its guns on the prime minister himself, calling him “shikhandi“, accusing him of turning a blind eye …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: Indian politicians and patriots have long held the belief that the “western” media only relays bad news from Bharat. That, despite all the towering …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met the ladies and gentlemen of the Indian media for the second time in six years on the completion of the first year of his second …
B.V. RAO writes from New Delhi: On Monday, May 24, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address a press conference in New Delhi to unveil the report card of his government’s …
Jairam Ramesh is the ultimate outsider looking in. Born in Chikamagalur but not quite a Kannadiga. Tam-Brahm but brought up in Bombay. An engineer by education but better known as …
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