Many cricket fans and aficionados consider themselves to be expert selectors – who should be in the team and who should not be. One of the favourite pastimes is to select an all time national and international Dream XI. Let us play selectors. The narrative will be as follows. As a first step, I would … Continue reading
Shiv Visvanathan, June 04, 2014 He is a professor at Jindal School of Government and Public Policy — THE LINK Narendra Modi can no longer be validated by the weakness of the Congress. He has to be judged not on critique but on the constructive nature of what he offers Excerpts The victory of Mr. … Continue reading
Sometime ago, the online news portal – FirstPost – introduced a policy of pre-moderation of comments, the ostentatious reason given out was to prevent filth, personal attacks and uncivilised language. All very welcome and noble per se. Wait a minute though. This policy is being very “cleverly” used by it to stop any anti-Modi and … Continue reading
by Hartosh Singh Bal, January 24, 2014 THE LINK Excerpts Narendra Modi has much to thank Somnath Bharti for, or perhaps I am overstating the case and the vast majority of India’s business journalists, in their hurry to see Modi coronated, would have forfeited a critical examination of his grand vision unveiled in Delhi even … Continue reading
by Hartosh Singh Bal, January 12, 2014 LINK Excerpts How many lies does it take to defend Modi? Economists bring the pretence of expertise to politics. As Manmohan Singh, the latest in a long line, has once again demonstrated, this pretence needs political patronage to survive. Thus it should come as no surprise that even … Continue reading
Hartosh Singh Bal, December 30, 2013 THE LINK Excerpts Narendra Modi’s innumerable supporters have had time to exult over a lower court decision not to tamper with the clean chit given to him by the Special Investigation Team set up to probe the 2002 killings. He has even had time to claim that he ‘was … Continue reading
Ashutosh Varshney, December 12, 2013 The writer is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences at Brown University, where he also directs the India Initiative at the Watson Institute. He is a contributing editor for ‘The Indian Express’. THE LINK Excerpts Congress’s secular nationalist narrative has lost its vigour. Internal elections must … Continue reading
Shekhar Gupta, December 07 2013 THE LINK Excerpts First, a disclosure. Narendra Modi’s call for a fresh debate on Article 370 is not the provocation for this week’s ‘National Interest’, though it could very well have been so. My inspiration, on the other hand, was more personal. At breakfast in a hotel coffee shop in … Continue reading
The Indian culture is perhaps one of the world’s most old heritages. The culture has espoused the idea of global brotherhood, irrespective of caste, creed, religion and social status centuries ago. The notion of वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम existed in India even when the west was not even born. The idea of secularism is a flawed product of … Continue reading
Vaiju Naravane, November 30, 2013 THE LINK An interview with Sanjay Subrahmanyam, historian Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam, eminent Indian historian, has been elected to the Collège de France in Paris, a prestigious centre of learning, where he will hold a Chair in Early Modern World History. Educated at the Delhi School of Economics, Professor Subrahmanyam taught … Continue reading
Nahla Nainar, November 22, 2013 THE LINK Excerpts With the drums of electoral war being sounded, every political party in the fray is on the hunt for a leader who, even if posthumously, can endorse them to the voters. The tussle over the ‘legacy’ of Sardar Vallabhai Patel is one such example. On the other … Continue reading
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