India

Why Man ki Baat is the greatest global innovation of twenty first century   Vivekanand Jha, Ranchi. As I heard Sri Narendra Modi’s Man ki Baat, my mind flew into the past decades, as the nostalgia of the resplendent past, engulfed me in its sweetest of tentacles: how decades ago, especially during my days of […]

Today’s encounter of dreaded criminals: Asad Ahmed and his aide, Ghulam, the killers of Umesh Pal, in Jhansi, is the vindication of the fact that, how the long arm of the law which had proven to be the escape route for the criminals, made increasingly impotent by the political patronage, is not only sought to […]

 When Nitish Kumar’s bloated ambition to become the prime minister, trumps his political pragmatism to rule Bihar. Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: Indeed as a proverb goes in Hindi that, when the death of an ant beckons it, it runs towards the town, Nitish Kumar, when the time for his political downsizing has already begun, even political […]

 Rahul Gandhi as a ‘ Pappu’ purportedly appears to have turned the table on BJP, as a section of people apparently come to believe, with his disqualification as a member of Lok Sabha.. Will it revive the moribund Congress Party and bring about the unity in opposition, remains the moot question? However, the fact remains […]

 With the new narrative of ‘ Bhartiyata’ gaining currency as the new raison d’etre and summum bonum of this India of twenty first Century, the de-colonisation of the national psyche which looked upon the western world for its inspiration as well as its edification, even though might not have been altogether banished, yet a definitive […]

 Nitish Kumar, an expert in the political messaging, has made it clear by his abstinence from signing the letter to prime minister seeking the immediate stop of different agencies harassing the opposition. Unequivocally, Nitish Kumar refusing to do so, especially when he has been vocal against the Modi government for its arbitrary steps to disintegrate […]

 The emergence of Maithili Thakur as the scintillating voice from Mithila, almost has the same degree and magnitude in penetrating the mind space of the nation, the way Vishwamitra’s chanting of Gayatri Mantra reverberated across the ethereal world, transcending the earthly firmament into the metaphysical domain. Significantly, at such a tender age, the rise of […]

 The latest verdicts of the supreme court vindicates its return to the position of the watchdog of the democracy, which it purportedly had sought to abandon at the face of the executive asserting its overwhelming domination in the polity. Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: Indeed a long awaited liberating news for the nation: A bench of three […]