Please read this and ponder over ⬇️ https://www.telegraphindia.com/amp/world/united-nations-human-rights-office-urges-indian-authorities-to-drop-cases-against-author-arundhati-roy-over-comments-on-kashmir/cid/2029993 This lady is a fine writer in English, of course, but then we know that her literary output — apart from a single much feted debut novel published 30 years ago — has been very near zero. Her life path thereafter has taken her only on theContinue reading “Brace yourself for Arundhati Roy winning the Nobel Prize for Peace sometime 2024-29”
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Why love actor Rajnikanth but hate Prime Minister Modi for brand-building mannerisms?
The above video-clip has gone viral in India and is drawing mixed and vociferous reactions from Modi-haters, baiters and admirers. The Modi-baiters in Kerala Congress Party put out a spiteful social media post that read: “The Pope finally gets to meet God Almighty!”. It’s funny but ill-conceived since the Modi-admirers turned it easily into aContinue reading “Why love actor Rajnikanth but hate Prime Minister Modi for brand-building mannerisms?”
Is Shashi Tharoor the “INDIA” Opposition’s very own Chanakya?
The Opposition’s strategy to oppose the NDA is made very clear in the Tharoor editorial : It’s going to be all about Federalism over the next 5 years… if the coalition of Narendra Modi lasts the journey. Tharoor in laying out the broad contours of the Opposition’s grand strategy, seems to be arrogating to himselfContinue reading “Is Shashi Tharoor the “INDIA” Opposition’s very own Chanakya?”
THE HINDU grants generous editorial space to “Princeton Professor. Mody” to make Tom Thumb seem like Godzilla!
I am not convinced this Editorial published in today’s The Hindu is any great macro-economic insight. It is however very timely of course. It is a stern reminder to the banking sector of course on prudent lending norms and practices. More importantly, it is a a timely and cautionary warning to households and families (lowerContinue reading “THE HINDU grants generous editorial space to “Princeton Professor. Mody” to make Tom Thumb seem like Godzilla!”
8 nasty things about Narendra Modi that can no longer be said about him
The beauty of this 2024 Lok Sabha election verdict is this : for both Modi and for the INDI Alliance , it’s both a victory and defeat of sorts. But for India’s Democracy, both truly in letter and spirit, it’s been an outright victory “of the people, by the people, for the people”. No otherContinue reading “8 nasty things about Narendra Modi that can no longer be said about him”
“A bold agenda for cleansing the Indian Electoral stables”: Will the new Central Government 2024-2029 have the courage to see it through?
In response to my blogpost of yesterday here at this link : https://mksudarshans.blog/2024/05/26/is-indian-electoral-system-designed-to-put-into-power-only-minority-governments/ , retired Judge of the Madras High Court, Justice T.C.A. Rangarajan ( https://tshc.gov.in/retjudges/tncrj.html) sent me an email proposing what I consider is a truly wholesome and innovative although radical and challenging agenda for large-scale Reform of India’s voting system. To read JudgeContinue reading ““A bold agenda for cleansing the Indian Electoral stables”: Will the new Central Government 2024-2029 have the courage to see it through?”
2024 Elections: Modi Vs the “domestic incumbents” Mohamed El-Erian warns us about
https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/india-must-manage-its-own-growing-global-systemic-importance-by-mohamed-a-el-erian-and-michael-spence-2024-03 Quite in contrast to the usual and steady stream of anti-India output we all know emanates from the ingrained bias, condescension and negative propaganda of the western media and Anglo-Saxon academia, this article by Mohamed El-Erian & Michael Spence seems in comparison almost like an, anodyne advisory —- friendly, well-intentioned and cautionary. There isContinue reading “2024 Elections: Modi Vs the “domestic incumbents” Mohamed El-Erian warns us about”
“Yathaa raaja thatha praja”: Is Ostentatious Religiosity harmless or toxic?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is so creative as a politician come election time. Last time general elections were held in 2019, he went to Dhyaan Kutia cave in the Himalaya ranges of Kedarnath and sat there in “dhyaana” pose, Buddha-like pictures of which went viral right across the media space , within and outside India.Continue reading ““Yathaa raaja thatha praja”: Is Ostentatious Religiosity harmless or toxic?”
“India’s Feet of Clay” in “Foreign Affairs”: Ramachandra Guha is Sir Bedivere to Nehruvian King Arthur
If any self-respecting Indian were to read this article written by Ramachandra Guha in latest issue of “FOREIGN AFFAIRS” , he or she would wonder if it is not exactly what Mahatma Gandhi had in mind when he wrote that Katherine Mayo’s book on “Mother India” was not really history but “a drain inspector’s report”.Continue reading ““India’s Feet of Clay” in “Foreign Affairs”: Ramachandra Guha is Sir Bedivere to Nehruvian King Arthur”
Was PM Narendra Modi right in invoking the Sudama and Krishna metaphor ?
I do not agree with Ritesh Sharma’s view below ⬇️ I think what PM Modi really meant was that ordinary people who were able to make anonymously small contributions to political parties in India under the Electoral Bond Scheme EBS have now lost that means of exercising even a modicum of popular influence on politicalContinue reading “Was PM Narendra Modi right in invoking the Sudama and Krishna metaphor ?”