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The bad BJP faces the good BJP
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The bad BJP faces the good BJP

February 11, 2020

By T.J.S. George Power makes small people smaller.  When the wheel of history turned and BJP became the ruling party, many of its adherents saw India exclusively as Bharat, their inheritance to play with.  The tactically wise among them spoke in moderate terms even as they pushed their agenda forward.  Prime Minister Modi, for example,…

Krishna Menon, alive and kicking
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Krishna Menon, alive and kicking

January 28, 2020

By T.J.S. George In the 1950s, the Urbs Prima in Indies was Bombay, not Delhi.  All important people lived there, all influential newspapers were published there, all ideological battles were fought there.  Into this theatre of war came V.K. Krishna Menon, all guns blazing. The theatre of the absurd followed.  Krishna Menon was a Congressman…

Belur to Tagore: Who is Tagore ?
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Belur to Tagore: Who is Tagore ?

January 21, 2020

By T.J.S. George Prime Minister Modiji said at Belur Mutt: “Swami Vivekananda lives in the hearts and minds of crores of Indians.” Then he said: “The new citizenship laws will not take away anyone’s citizenship.”  Then two things happened. 1.  The Belur Mutt lost no time in distancing itself from the Prime Minister’s position.  The…

Warning: A New Generation Rises
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Warning: A New Generation Rises

January 14, 2020

By T.J.S. George What is happening to our country?  Suddenly, it is a ship drifting in a storm, rudderless and captainless.  The brutality that was unleashed in JNU last week was unprecedented, more in-your-face than the violence that recently rocked Jamia Milia and Aligarh.  The goons, who beat up students and teachers at JNU, were…

Time for Gandhi’s, Tagore’s India
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Time for Gandhi’s, Tagore’s India

January 7, 2020

By T.J.S. George Allow me to welcome the New Year with some old words.  Actually they are timeless words, always relevant.  They are reminders of our heritage, our possibilities and our shortcomings. Let them speak                 for themselves. M.K. Gandhi, January 1948: My fast, as I have stated in plain language, is undoubtedly on behalf of…

In other words, who is lying?
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In other words, who is lying?

December 31, 2019

By T.J.S George The President of India in June 2019, six months ago: “My Government has decided to implement the process of NRC (National Register of Citizens).”  The Prime Minister of India in December 2019, just a few days ago: “My Government has never discussed the word NRC.” So whose Government is running the country?…

Freedom struggle all over again
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Freedom struggle all over again

December 24, 2019

By T.J.S. George All of a sudden India is in the throes of a second independence movement.  Across the country, streets are aflame with rebellion, campuses are reverberating with protests, people are defying the law and thousands are getting arrested.  Just as it was when the nation fought British imperialism. A new swadeshi imperialism has…

Deve Gowda gets zero, must quit
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Deve Gowda gets zero, must quit

December 17, 2019

By T.J.S. George When will Sri H.D.  Deve Gowda realise that people are fed up with his politics?  His own followers are fed up. Many have quit and joined the BJP, including the President of the JD(S) Karnataka unit, A.H. Vishwanath.  In last week’s by-elections, 15 seats were at stake. The BJP got 12 and…

Spreading fear among the People
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Spreading fear among the People

December 10, 2019

By T.J.S. George Rahul Bajaj’s reference to “the atmosphere of fear in the country” has drawn widespread attention.  Newspaper editorials and channel discussions carried its echoes.  Failing to understand the mood of the moment, Nirmala Sitaraman added to the atmosphere of fear by warning that if personal impressions such as Bajaj’s gained traction, it would…

About the tyranny of er… Others
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About the tyranny of er… Others

December 3, 2019

By TJS George This week, I shall plagiarise. Without shame.  I shall reproduce whole sentences from a book review in the Financial Times of London because they are sentences that sum up our lives here in our country.  The book is How To Be A Dictator by Frank Dikotter and the reviewer is Tony Barber,…

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