Category: Politics and Governance in India

No longer funny…

A Marathi Manoos’ house is ransacked in Jamshedpur for no other reason except that he belonged to the wrong “state” A 10-year old boy – almost certainly too young to understand what the fuss is...

Nanopost of the day…

…in which I get annoyed by Praful Bidwai‘s gratuitous reference to “ethnic cleansing” and “communal clashes” while conveniently forgetting Assam where these words have taken on an entirely different meaning…and the scale of human misery has...

Interview with Deepak Mittal, “Jago Party”

I first heard of “Jago Party” a few months ago during some meetings I had in Delhi.  Earlier this month, I finally got around to visiting their website and leaving a comment requesting an interview with...

A dangerous portent

Some of you must have read the news from two days ago regarding a call by some Muslim leaders to form a “Muslim political front“  that would also align “secular forces”. Quite how a religious...