B.L. Santhosh, Karnataka’s next BJP Chief Minister? Will Santhosh become Haryana’s Khattar in Karnataka? On Friday, 24th January, 2020, BJP’s newly-minted National Organising General Secretary B.L. Santhosh, son of Karnataka soil (Mannina Maga), came to Mysuru to address a public meeting on Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). This law was passed by both the Houses of…
Jairam Ramesh faults Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa
February 10, 2020A case of Suppressio Veri, Suggestio Falsi ? Be that as it may, in retrospect, one will wonder if what the General Cariappa had said in 1970 was prophetic because Indira Gandhi soon in 1975 declared Nationwide Emergency which is similar to a military rule in its enforcement and it also turned out to be…
With love from Donald Trump to India and Narendra Modi !
February 8, 2020Other day, I was riveted to America’s CNN TV Channel watching President Donald Trump delivering his 2020 State of the Union Address, an American tradition, till the end. It was Tuesday, 4th of February. I found it rather surprising and also an act of bravado on the part of the President to deliver the address…
The demon called Coronavirus
February 3, 2020The demon will soon be defeated “World Health Organization (WHO) does not recommend evacuation of foreign nationals, and called on the international community to remain calm and not overreact. WHO is confident in China’s epidemic prevention and control ability.” The epidemic is a demon, and we cannot let this demon hide,” says the Chinese President…
Musings on Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa’s defence of CAA — 2
January 14, 2020[Continued from yesterday] The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore.”— Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (1480-1521) As I mentioned yesterday in this column, Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa, as if inspired by the philosophy of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan quoted above, refused to…
Musings on Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa’s defence of CAA —1
January 13, 2020The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore.” — Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (1480-1521) For those who are opposing CAA in our country today, the idea of India is not in believing ‘India first.’ For them, India seems to come next. Whatever it is,…
Maligning Savarkar to what purpose?
January 6, 2020On 15th of September, 2019, I attended a function arranged by Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust at Hotel Southern Star where author and historian Vikram Sampath’s book on Veer Savarkar titled “Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883-1924” was released. After the function, I got an autographed book as a gift from the author with…
Citizenship Amendment Act: Dr. Swamy responds…
December 21, 2019This morning I had a pleasant surprise in The Hindu. It had published a response to what the leader of the CPI (Marxist) and Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan had written in The Hindu titled “Time to defend India’s secularism,” on Dec. 18, 2019 expressing his opposition to Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA). Dr….
Citizen Mr. India
December 13, 2019Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, passed the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill. I was listening to the proceedings till it was put to vote. My interest was specially in listening to P. Chidambaram, who was there fresh from Tihar Jail and Kapil Sibal, the legal eagle of the Congress party. Due to a diversion,…
What manner of a man is this Rajinikanth?
December 3, 2019Recently Supreme Court Judge Justice N.V. Ramana had said that the fate of the country would depend on the character of the leaders administering it. How true and valid an opinion, specially in the context of our country’s administration conducted since 70 years. It is only after 2014 when Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister…
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