How you can help Marathwada
A number of people have been asking me how they can help the farmers of Marathwada. Here is how: Dilasa Janvikas Pratisthan Bank: State Bank of India, Station Road,...
Towards a ‘Congress Mukt’ Bharat ?
We want a Congress Mukt Bharat,” thundered Narendra Modi in the 2014 general election campaign, a slogan echoed repeatedly BJP president, Amit Shah. The declared goal was not just...
Art of Living and Political Loyalty
It was a picture that radiated temporal Lutyens-land power: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar flanked by half a dozen Union Cabinet ministers, including the finance minister, the BJP president, the...
Smriti Irani: time to course correct
Sharad Pawar is a man of few words, Smriti Irani a woman with a vast vocabulary. Last week, when the HRD minister delivered a remarkable “performance” in a Parliament...
हां, मैं राष्ट्र-विरोधी हूं, क्योंकि…
नब्बे के दशक में देश की राजनीति धर्मनिरपेक्षता बनाम छद्म धर्मनिरपेक्षता में विभाजित थी ; अब एक और अधिक घातक विभाजन ‘राष्ट्रवादी’ अौर ‘राष्ट्र-विरोधी’ ताकतों के आधार पर करने...
Yes, I am anti-national
In the 1990s, the country’s polity was divided by secular versus pseudo secular faultlines; now, another divide, and frankly far more insidious, is sought to be created between ‘national’...
One year of Kejriwal govt
A few years ago, I was sitting next to Manohar Parrikar on a flight. The defence minister was then Goa chief minister and was travelling economy, dressed in trademark...
Cast aside on Campus
At the height of the FTII agitation last year, a senior minister rang up to complain at what he termed the “excessive” focus on the student protests. “These are...
Modi Pak policy: maturity or duplicity?
Heads of our soldiers are being cut but we are feeding their prime minister chicken biryani. This country is ruled by weak leaders,” Narendra Modi speech in May 2013....
Modi should alter style, Rahul substance
News channels always face a ‘dharam sankat’ when Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi speak at the same time. In the last few years the tendency has been to relentlessly...