Remembering the first PM in the age of Narendra ModiAakar Patel
“People’s clear message to PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah is that we don’t want you to run the nation,” Gandhi said at a Congress party press conference around 10 hours into the vote count. “The poorest of this country have defended the constitution of India.” Flanked by Con...
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he wrote, accept Hindu rituals at state ceremonies in the same spirit as teetotallers accept champagne in western celebrations. This self-affirming explanation is characteristic of someone who belongs to the majority community. Muslims I interviewed took a different view...
(Gupta2014: 215). This dialogue has very likely continued since then even as it is not publicly reported. Given the Dalai Lama’s advanced age,Footnote8the politics of his “reincarnation” will have implications for Sino-Indian relations (Rehman2019). The Dalai Lama has often described ...
At the age of 8 years, he met Lakshmanrao Inamdar, who inducted him as a junior cadet in RSS. He is known to be Modi’s political ‘guru’. At 18 years, he was married to Jashodaben by his parents. But he soon left her to pursue his political ambitions. In 1970, he became a ...
For instance, it is said of the Portuguese king Pedro I that when he became king, he had his dead mistress (Some ten years dead) dug up, and married her remains, and then forced the whole court to kiss her hand. This seems to be under the equivalent of what would today be in the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the summit meeting of the China-Russia sponsored Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan this week. India is a full member of this alliance which has been created to counter the US dominance in Asia. At the same time, ...
Government to provide free Covid-19 vaccine to all Indian citizens above 18 years of age: PM Modi The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi stated that 21st June onwards, Government of India will provide free Covid-19 vaccine to all Indian citizens above 18 years of age from June 21st onwards....
He has also lied about himself and Rajiv Gandhi in 1990-1991, and hence he has lied about me indirectly. In 2007 I was gentle in my exposure of his mendacity because of his advanced age. Now it is more and more clear to me that exposing this directly may be the one way for ...