By: Dr. Geeta Kochhar & Sipu Tiwari With the US Special Coordinator on Tibet Uzra Zeya paying three-days visit to Kathmandu starting from May 21, the issue of Tibet has become the limelight in Nepal. Her visit to Tibetan Community in Lalitpur and raising the issue of Tibetan Human Rights has been strongly condemned by […]
One of the biggest traumas for India, apart from its immensely flawed political, economic and social trajectories, was the hijacking of intellectual space by the left- liberal- seculars. Small wonder then, with the intellectual space too, apart from politics, needed an immediate course correction: The rise of J. Sai Deepak, a lawyer, as an emerging […]
With Nitish apparently set to be moving out of Patna, for some cushy position in Delhi, the imminent prospect of the takeover of Bihar by Laloo’s family appears to be the ground reality today. Hence against this backdrop, the situation in Bihar appears to be almost the same when Nitish took over more than fifteen […]
Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: The gravest of ironies that Hinduism, the first religion as well as civilisation on earth, has confronted is this: How could a religion which has taken to its bosom all the persecuted races, would stand diminished and degraded for millennium, caused a tremendous amount of agitation in this writer as it had […]
When India’s foreign policy stands at the historic crossroad: Will India back NATO or Russia, in the ongoing war in Ukraine? The historic Hollywood movie, Ben-Hur should be revisited for taking cue for its historic dilemma in setting its foreign policy trajectory. Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: In the boyhood days, filled with an endless resplelence, in […]
The ongoing election in Uttar Pradesh will decide as to who finally will lead India: Narendra Modi or Yogi Adityanath. Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: In one of my previous pieces I had dwelt on the fact, that challenger to Modi has to come from inside, for neither Rahul nor Mamata has the wherewithal to take […]
Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: Rashtriya Lokneeti Party, despite being hobbled by its recent inception, resource crunch and multiple other internal contradictions, nevertheless has magnificently succeeded in creating an upsurge of its own presence in Uttar Pradesh by extending its wholehearted support to BJP in the ongoing election in Uttar Pradesh. Significantly, the Party has been under […]
With the fragility of republic being an all time high, the latest accentuation of turmoil brought about by the hijab controversy has all the potential to further unsettle the republic. Hence in this backdrop, when the focus of the national attention is on the full bench of Karnataka High Court, the moot point is: will […]
When the blatant form of Rajneeti institutionalised in our polities–India, since independence, and Nepal, since the monarchy had been dumped to pave the way for the democracy to take shape–the power, instead of being concentrated in the people, had been monopolised by the oligarchs in both the countries. Hence, a sunlit path towards the people […]
Vivekanand Jha, Ranchi . Modi, irrespective of praise and criticisms, notwithstanding his achievements or failures, is the global phenomenon of 21st century. The master in real politicking, has institutionalised, by virtue of orchestrating such a degree and magnitude of attention around him, that bidding a political goodbye to him will never be an easy task […]