Dear Never Trump brigade, Eat it! And more importantly, get used to this sort of political incorrectness. You’ll come across a lot of it in the next four years. And those who actually...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addressed a gathering of Indian Americans earlier this month. He expressed his admiration for Hinduism and prime minister Modi’s economic policies, and stated that both countries would be...

“You can sell a horse as a horse but you cannot sell a donkey as a racehorse.” For Prashant Kishor, this proverb rings true today. As surveys assessing the electoral ground realities of...

Communism, irrespective of the various versions, mutations and distortions it has undergone, has religiously followed one of its founding tenets- the belief that concepts such as god and nation are conspiratorial lies to...

The country’s pseudo-liberal brigade is at it again. This time it has come out against the Raj Thackeray led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, which issued an ultimatum asking Pakistani artists to leave the country....

After prime minster Modi spoke about Balochistan in his Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort, the issue has been catapulted into the global mainstream. Balochistan is one of those...

There are no prizes for guessing which political ideology was responsible for the highest number of murders around the world. Which political ideology it was that spread largescale hunger, poverty and strife around...

When Narendra Modi began raising the issue of human rights violations in Balochistan, sections of the Indian media and intelligentsia were up in arms. Although their disagreement with the prime minister’s move stemmed...

Ever since Mamata Banerjee got rid of the Communist dispensation in Bengal, she has moved from strength to strength. Since the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, she controls the fourth largest contingent of MPs...

The Gandhi family’s downfall has been, for lack of a better word, spectacular. It exercised complete control over the country for several long spells, the latest one being between 2004 and 2014. Perhaps...

Pakistan has pressed charges against the Baloch leaders who came out in support of Prime Minister Modi ’s statement about the territories that Pakistan forcibly occupies. At an all-party meet earlier this month,...

Prime Minister Modi’s annual Independence Day speeches have always generated a buzz. True to character, he has left his own mark on this seventy-year old event. Unlike the drab speeches that were read...