PM Modi’s dynamic leadership and the global re-ordering

September 24, 2021

As Prime Minister Modi embarks on his UN and US visit, it is interesting to see how he has pushed the Indian narrative of crisis management and handling over the last two years. Modi’s politics is not the politics of resentment, he does not speak of the rise of India...

Suppressing Partition horrors and manufacturing convenient realities

August 27, 2021

In his introduction to the reprint of Sardar Gurbachan Singh Talib’s Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab—1947, philosopher Ram Swarup put forth an articulate description of forces and elements that are active in order to stymie and stifle our national growth. Ram Swarup described them as...

A forgotten and unpunished genocide

August 13, 2021

For over seven decades since Independence, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s contribution to India’s national life was largely ignored and marginalised. The Nehruvian consensus that dominated India till the summer of 2014 ensured that Syama Prasad’s legacy and contribution were consigned to the periphery and were either minimised or misinterpreted. There...

‘Khela Hobe’ of retributive violence

July 30, 2021

While she chases her pipe dream of heading a ‘Federal Front’ as Prime Minister in 2024, Mamata Banerjee’s newly elected government in West Bengal is beginning to slip on a number of fronts. That she lost in the just concluded Assembly elections in the state and is thus both a...

Recalling unsung legacy of Syama Prasad Mookerjee

June 23, 2021

It is deeply symbolic and profoundly significant that on 24th June, a day after Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s 68th martyrdom anniversary—Balidan Divas—Prime Minister Narendra Modi will confabulate with political parties from Jammu and Kashmir to chart out the future electoral map and trajectory for the region. Prime Minister Modi’s vision...

Lokkho Sonar Bangla: Reviving the lost glory of West Bengal

January 23, 2021

For the last five decades West Bengal has lacked a long-term vision. Thirty-four years of Communist rule, which was essentially a false proletarian rule, and nine years of a false poriborton, in which Maa, Maati and Maanush were neglected and exploited, have not been able to impart a long-term vision...

The insidious agenda of the pseudo-liberal brigade

October 14, 2020

Public property worth thousands of crores was damaged in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Delhi by anti-CAA protestors who were clearly funded by PFI, an entity which was allowed to spread its influence during the Congress regime. The most heartening development of the past six years has been the nature...

The false spectre of a friendless India

September 30, 2020

PM Modi and PM Rajapaksa’s recent virtual summit has given the India-Sri Lanka relation a new dimension in the pandemic era. In August 2020, when he took over as Sri Lanka’s foreign minister, Jayanath Colambage had clearly stated that for Sri Lanka’s strategic and security policy, it will always be...

Self-annihilation of political opposition

August 28, 2020

Who has annihilated the political opposition in India? It is India’s political opposition which has or is annihilating itself. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making history, India’s political opposition continues to remain confused, bitter about electoral defeat and rejection, incapable of reinventing itself, unable to articulate what it stands...

Why Kashmir is more than just a land for India

August 11, 2020

In an amazingly short tract proposing a certain line of research on Kashmir, one of the greatest civilisational scholars that India has produced in modern times, Dr Raghuvira, describing Kashmir wrote, thus, “Kashmir is not only a sporting ground — the Switzerland of India, as the Europeans view it. It...

Anirban Ganguly

PM Modi’s dynamic leadership and the global re-ordering