Bangladeshi film star Anju Ghosh has recently joined BJP in Kolkata. Nobody raised any objection to her being part of the BJP family. When Anju Ghosh was being greeted for membership of the BJP, an army veteran who fought at the Kargil war was arrested on…
Communal Violence in India during 2018 — A Brief Report
Communal Violence has been the bane of this country, gratitude to our politicians and their selfish interests. Ironically most of the riots are engineered…
Indian Constitutional Courts and Secularism | Irfan Engineer
Traditions and customs are being used to redefine and redraw the contours of secularism in India in last couple of years. The Constitutional parents,…
India the new Lynchdom
Martin Luther King Jr. said that law may not be able to make a man love him but it can keep the man from lynching him. These words were said by Martin Luther King Jr. in the era where the racial segregation was at its peak and the African Americans targeted…
Temples, Politics and Leaders: From Jawaharlal Nehru to Rahul Gandhi
What should be the attitude of leaders’ visits to places of worship? The matter is very complex in a society like that of India where the hold of religion on the society has been strong and is becoming stronger. In many a Western countries where Christianity…
Crimes that society needs to discuss which media skipped
We are all now part of ‘Breaking News’ and ‘Viral News’ culture. This has been imposed on our mind set by media, politicians and the ruling clergy. We are aware, we as a society are victim of this propaganda, but still we indulge to consume that information…
Briefing paper on Monetary Policy for a Unity Government 2019
The economic policy of the BJP has been blundering along in the footsteps of previous parties and exacerbating in a very short time all the very severe pre-existing problems built up over 80 years since the Reserve Bank of India creation, such that today in…
The failure of multi-party democracy in India
The 19th national congress of the Communist Party of China is underway. Every day the contrast between the Chinese model of development towards socialism and India’s failed multi-party democracy becomes starker. The vision for the world presented by China’s…
Communal response to Hamid Ansari’s parting truth
Its history but worth noting that it was at Aurangzeb’s court that his daughter zaibunnisa’s maid servant dropped the mirror of glasses which broke into pieces. The maid servant on the spur of the moment said that ‘’ Aine chini shikst ” . ( the mirror…
70 Years of Independence: Miles and Miles to go Before we Sleep
Seventy years as an independent country is a good enough period to reflect on how we have evolved as a nation and how our polity has evolved. It will be incorrect to generalize our observations across the length and breadth of our country as India is very…