Articles with tag: bjp

Whose Dog?

Prashant Bhatt Sep 29, 2008 interacts: 2

The way the Sangh Parivar has co-opted the working class and youth militants while serving the interests of the rich and powerful is a phenomenon which has torn India apart.

It's Politics Uber Alles In Kashmir ..... And India

Dost Mittar Aug 14, 2008 interacts: 259

The BJP, while paying lip service to maintaining peace, did nothing to calm the situation in Jammu; instead, its troops have taken to the streets in other cities in India.

6th December 1992

M B Qasmi Dec 5, 2007 interacts: 86

A turning point in Hindu Muslim relations in the post independence Indian history. It was a moment when all truths about religious coexistence suddenly proved false.

Truth Behind US-India Nuclear Deal

Shanay Khuda Dec 13, 2006 interacts: 95

US-India deal has all the signs of great treaty. However it also contains some ominas signs of India getting trapped in a CIA net.

Prisoner of Conscience or Conscious Prisoner?

Farzana Versey May 29, 2006 interacts: 58

V.P.Singh is back with a new Jan Morcha. Look at the timing. ‘Mandal 2’ is staining the streets. Is he capitalising on the wave? He says in this interview, “We are sitting on a volcano. The very backward are looking up to me. In 15 years

Modi’s Men and their Mean Machines

Farzana Versey May 3, 2006 interacts: 204

Every illegal religious shrine ought to be demolished. Yet, I wish to know how a 200-year-old dargah of a Sufi saint qualifies as being ‘illegal’, is bulldozed and leads to mob violence. Gujarat is becoming an experimental lab for the Hindu Ra

Ba, Beti aur Bahu

Farzana Versey Apr 5, 2006 interacts: 95

Uma Bharti is putting on the loner act for only one reason – to save the BJP’s top rung. The real loner here is Sonia. Her godfathers are ghosts. Are both of them “mind-controlled victims”?

W(h)ither BJP?

Dost Mittar Sep 26, 2005 interacts: 84

His departure may placate the RSS apparatchiks in Nagpur but it will not resolve the internal contradiction in the BJP. These contradictions will be resolved only by a split in the party.

Bunty aur Babli: The latest RSS-BJP tango

Farzana Versey Jun 20, 2005 interacts: 289

The con-game has been going on for over a decade.Advani was the RSS’ foot soldier who did all he could in Pakistan to lay the foundation for the return of Hindutva. He followed his brief well: Create confusion and fulfil the mission of the hardliner

Advani in Karachi

Beena Sarwar Jun 5, 2005 interacts: 665

'There are many people who leave an inerasable stamp on history. But there are a few who actually create history. Qaed-e-Azam Mohd Ali Jinnah was one such rare individual,' commented India’s opposition leader and Bharatiya Janata Party president Lal

The Secularity of India

Nader Thiasi Jun 2, 2004 interacts: 393

a ’secularism’ that never came to be..

Shiners versus Whiners; it’s Economics, Stupid

Harish Nambiar May 15, 2004 interacts: 61

After all the hype and hoopla about India Shining, the results are a clear indicator that the BJP-led coalition misread public perception completely.

India Votes - and How!

Aniruddha Shankar May 14, 2004 interacts: 488

Gujarat results, the Left wave, and the dark lining of the silver cloud.

Bring on The Empty Horses

Farzana Versey May 10, 2004 interacts: 105

They are the new face of Indian politics. The branding of democracy with a stamp of supra-populism. The marketplace where you do not need to buy masses to listen to speeches, but to purchase the glamour of fringe stars