on the pretext of it blocking the passage to a 400-year-old Shiva temple and a BJP leader more recentlyaskingfor 20 of its rooms to be laid bare, so that its origins as a Shiva temple named Tejo Mahalaya might be exposed. Right-wing nationalist...
The BJP, founded in 1980 as a second attempt at an RSS electoral wing, initially found success by campaigning in the mid-to-late 1980s for the demolition of a mosque in the city of Ayodhya — one located on a site that many Hindus believed to be the birthplace of the Hindu holy figur...
they told us it was not the right office, go to this other office. That office was so far away. There, they told us office hours are over, office is closed come back tomorrow. When we went the next day, the officer was not there. We had to go so many times to the office...
With the routing of both the Left and the Congress in election after election, there are murmurs that there is pressure for the two to unite to take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which came to power in the 2014 National Elections. These views echo the line of the General ...
In fact, it lost some of its conservative supporters to the more radical Freedom Front Plus (VF+), a right-wing, mainly Afrikaner minority party. South Africa's election: Five things we've learnt The opposition, however, contended that the violence unleashed by the ruling United Peoples' Fr...
The choices are stark and call for political courage. The BJP can either join the antediluvians in the bazaar and guard the gates against the barbarians from the West or behave like a modern right wing party.S. Prasannarajan
Tragedy of the Five Star Party ; What the party now needs is a leader with ideas that can reclaim the still vacant space for a modern right-wing party. It has to tap the economic and cultural aspirations of twenty-first century India. As the 2014 General Elections loom, can the BJP ...
There's no question that Pakistan is in the midst of a major economic crisis. The country's economic performance is dismal right now. At the same time, it must be acknowledged that Pakistan, with its youngest population in Asia, has a bright future ahead if its leaders can resolve the in...
As the radical currents are being swept aside by the winds of right-wing discourse, it is pertinent to recall the Saidian (Edward Said) dictum that “nothing disfigures the intellectuals’ public performance as much trimming, careful silence, patriotic bluster, and retrospective of self-dramatising...
Last week, the BJP said it would pass a common legal code for all Indians — another RSS desire — to replace religious personal laws. Muslim leaders and others oppose it. But Modi’s politics are appealing to those well beyond right-wing nationalists — ...