The ghastly ghost of Nehru’s unsullied love for Stalinist Russia continues to haunt us. His intolerance to criticism spilled over to the next generation culminating in the Emergency. While Nehru at least concealed his intolerance under a carefully-cultivated outward sophistication, his daughter was quite frank in showing her sense of entitlement to rule India.
The Congress [...]

Congress is back with a bigger bang and the Puppet Prime Minister has been sworn in for a consecutive term. He shares this rare distinction of a consecutive term in office only after the mighty Indira Gandhi.
Actually this nation deserves perpetual rule by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. That way, we’ll have at least nothing to look [...]

In his masterpiece, Decolonizing the Hindu Mind, Koenraad Elst makes a very perceptive observation about the BJP. He concludes that the BJP–ever since its inception–has always played the game by the rules set by its opponents. In his brief but lucid piece analyzing the BJP’s 2009 poll disaster, he underscores the same point and expands [...]

Tuloji Angre was a fearsome Maratha Admiral head honcho under the Marathas. His hold over the sea was absolute and brutal. It took Robert Clive’s cunning to capitalize on the divided Maratha house. He allied with the disgruntled Maratha elements and cobbled a massive force of British warships and the Maratha navy and attacked Angre. [...]

A familiar but now-stale din in the Secular Hall of Shame Fame concerns how Christianity is an equalizing force. This din masks a tacit approval in favour of conversions. Needless, this din also masks a similar tacit approval in favour of any and all methods used to convert. However, with their penchant for spitting and [...]