Tag: Congress

  • Why does the opposition keep losing elections one after another, and why does Modi keep winning them one after another?

    Why does the opposition keep losing elections one after another, and why does Modi keep winning them one after another?

    Two very senior journalists – the kind who spent the last decade telling us that Modi’s victories were accidents, that 2014 was a “wave”, 2019 was “hate”, and that Congress still held the moral high ground – finally decided to ask the question everyone else answered years ago: Why does the opposition keep losing elections…

  • Indian General Elections of 2024 and the narratives!

    Indian General Elections of 2024 and the narratives!

    Finally after ten long years of fascism and dictatorship the democracy in India has risen from the ashes like phoenix. It was dead for the last ten years. There wasn’t a day in the last ten years when this monotonous rhetoric didn’t resonate in the so-called elite and intellectual circles in the country. The Indian…

  • A tale of two states: Punjab, Kerala and Paddy cultivation

    A tale of two states: Punjab, Kerala and Paddy cultivation

    Although, the two states, Punjab and Kerala are different in a variety of ways, the geographical location, the size, the population, the people, the culture, the climate etc. but they have one thing exactly the same. The flawed and shortsighted agricultural policies eating the states from the inside. The incompetent agricultural policies running in the…

  • A busy Hindu only complains!!!

    A busy Hindu only complains!!!

    A few weeks ago two Sadhus were brutally lynched in a place called Palghar in Maharashtra. Infact the visuals were so disturbing that it was literally impossible to watch the video without a cringe. I generally avoid watching these kind of videos because I am not that strong with the heart. I ended up watching…

  • Lynching Whatsapp; In the name of Holy Cow

    Lynching Whatsapp; In the name of Holy Cow

    Truth is stranger than fiction, and how we define truth is even stranger than the truth.  If only Isaac Newton was a pseudo-secular-neo-intellectual-liberal or a modern day journalist, he would have prosecuted the apple and the tree from where it fell on to him for attacking him and his freedom. The apple did fall, it…

  • Here is why I am happy with the Statue of Unity or The Statue of Change!!

    Here is why I am happy with the Statue of Unity or The Statue of Change!!

    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein It has been more than a month since the world’s tallest statue”The Statue of Unity” was inaugurated by our prime minister. Even before the event it touched some nerve leading to…

  • Entangled Kashmir: A web of poor and selfish decisions

    Entangled Kashmir: A web of poor and selfish decisions

    Which among the two (A.  Indian National Congress or B. Bhartiya Janta Party) can solve the Kashmir problem? Like it or not, you are going to answer this question in less than six months. If you vote you choose the answer consciously, if you don’t vote or use NOTA, you choose. But you choose unconsciously!…

  • Mahagathbandhan: A Cry for help!!!

    Mahagathbandhan: A Cry for help!!!

    A grand alliance “mahagathbandhan” is the only way forward to survive