Category: Politics and Governance in India

Don’t worry, be happy*

Esteemed Foreign Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee quoted in various reports talking about the issue of cross-border incursions by China: Sometimes incursions take place… but there (is) no need to press any “panic button” 🙁 Please...

Building a Freedom Team for India

Dear All, it is my pleasure to publish this guest post by Sanjeev Sabhlok. As you know, good governance in India is something very close to my heart. I am glad that Sanjeev has...

Secularism has its own agenda

Extracts from a BBC news story: “…Dr Nazir Ali, the bishop of Rochester…in a separate interview with the BBC…said “Britishness” had to be recovered if it was to “have the identity to face another...

On Narendra Modi and being a Hindu

Extracts from Shri B Raman’a article in the recent edition of Outlook (Dec 24 ’07), “The Secular Hypocrisy“: *** …The pathological dislike–even hatred–that some of our journalists–particularly in the electronic media–have for Modi could�...

From the tragedy, some unsavoury truths

Below, a collection of short excerpts from various reports and analyses following the tragic assasination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. *** From M. A. Muqtedar Khan’s (Associate professor and director of Islamic Studies, University of...