The Crown Prince, heir-apparent, and India’s Prime Minister-in-waiting asks with great gravity:
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi put a poser before non-government organizations (NGOs) and tribal youth cadre of the party during his stay in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bastar region - ‘Why is Maoism growing in the state?‘
I find it really funny. But I can understand the Prince’s [...]
This shows how India gifted Nepal to China. While most in the mainstream media gloat about the victory of democracy, free and fair elections, etc nobody wants to see behind the curtain.
India gifts Nepal to China
Balbir K Punj
The UPA Government can now flaunt one more ‘achievement’ along with inflation, deceleration in rate of growth and [...]
An article (link courtesy the Acorn) by Nandini Sundar that tries to examine the Maoist menace by drawing guidance from the Mahabharata, gets the Mahabharata portion almost wholly wrong.
The old suspect, A.K. Ramanujan emerges out of the woodwork on Outlook’s pages. The magazine’s leader to this article says:
…in a pocket of the Delhi University, right-wing student activists have taken exception to this essay by the celebrated scholar A.K. Ramanujan, on the many Ramayanas living across languages and narrative genres, each different but no [...]
Tibet stands tall in the list of Nehru’s ugly legacies. With our Comrades calling the shots now, is this news any surprise?
Indian police have arrested about 100 Tibetan exiles who set out, earlier this week, on a protest march from India to their homeland. ….the march is part of a global campaign mounted by [...]
Guns, tanks, swords, knives, and bombs are not the only weapons to carry out the People’s Revolution. The CPI-M shows what else is required.
CPI-M cadres who were denied jobs in local factories ransacked a party office, beat up leaders and later locked them up in a shop in the Sagarbhanga area today. The district party [...]
Is this latest Red attack in Orissa a precursor of sorts?
A day after Naxals launched massive attacks in Orissa killing 15 people, security forces are intensifying pressure on them
But the Naxals now seem to be shifting targets. The Tata Group is now at the top of their hit list. And as recent attacks show, so [...]
This is where I wind up my previous post on Hindutva, which I had left unfinished. I pointed to a fundamental error in understanding Hindutva by comparing it to "militant Islam."
This promises to be fun. Times of India has already begun its verbal acrobatics.
Congress in Gujarat is raising its voice on the Sohrabuddin issue. But, it should explain to the people what should be done to a man who stored illegal arms and ammunition. You tell me, what should have been done to Sohrabuddin?"
The [...]
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How not to Address the Naxal Problem
In a rather lengthy article, Manjeet Kriplani discusses the Naxal problem. While she correctly echoes what we all knew–that the Naxals pose the biggest threat to India’s internal security–she quickly bares her sympathies.
Judging from their past experience with development, the tribals have a right to be afraid of the mining and building that threaten to [...]