Never in the independent India, Bengali Bhadralok and Bhadramahila were stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea: If they vote for BJP, they tend to extend an open invitation for communal agenda to seize the culturally awakened people into a feast of communal frenzy; whereas if Mamata is voted back, the spectre of […]
Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: Will Modi bite the bullet to pick up the gauntlet to elevate Bhagvad Gita to the stature of the national scripture? Not only will this fulfill Sushma Swaraj’ latest wish, but it will be the next befitting step towards conceding the long standing aspiration of the aboriginals of this Punya Bhoomie, after […]
Had there been no Jawaharlal Nehru, where would the Modi government find its own litany of excuses to hide behind the avalanche of their own omissions and commissions? In fact, the tendency of BJP and Modi government to hide their own skeletons by simply magnifying the failures of Jawaharlal and correspondingly minusculing its own. The […]
Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: Namak ka Daroga, one of the famous stories penned by an immortal Munsi Ptemchandjee, which is being filmed by Gulzar, was recently shown on Doordarshan. As I watched the story of an honest and upright Daroga, Station in charge of a police station, the story that I read in my juvenile days, […]
S.Jaishankar’s remarkable strategic policy success with USA runs parallel to his corresponding policy failures with China -both strategic as well as tactical. Would India’s federal contradiction pertaining to Teesta river dispute have been allowed to impact its external relationship with Bangladesh? Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: On the occasion of oath taking ceremony of the Union Council […]
It is the most opportune time for the ghost of Sitaram Kesri visiting Sonia Gandhi: she too, like she did to Kesri, needed to be thrown out of the party and political obituary be written off her as well her offsprings Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: In 1989 General Election, Rammohan Gandhi contested the election against the […]
With a surge in surrealistic nationalism having already eclipsed the innate sense of patriotism, the jingoistic rawdism masquerading as pious nationalism, has become the new badge of nationalistic pride for unleashing a new wave of hooliganism in the republic. Vivekanand Jha, Ranchi: In the classical movie of all times, Pyasa, immortal actor Gurudutt, who played […]
An India where both Hindus and Muslims live as equal stakeholders, where neither feel intimidated by the overwhelming or underwhelming presence of other; also, where there is neither any threat of Gazwa e Hind subsuming Hindus, nor the fear of Hindu Rashtra relegating the Muslims to the 2nd class citizenship. Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: Writing his […]
In the annals of the Chronicle of crusades for Mother Ganga, the legendary crusade of Prof. G.D. Agrawal is the priceless heritage that will inspire men and women of ever generation to raise their voice in the support for the movement for cleansing Ganga of all Her impurities. Vivekanand Jha pays glowing tributes to Professor […]
Sadhus and Maulvis should not be allowed to hijack the constitutional democracy. When Shri Ram is as much a Maryada Purushottam for Hindus as he is an Imam e Hind for Muslims. Vivekanand Jha Ranchi, Maulvis and Sadhus should not be allowed to hijack the polity as per their whims and fancy. Notwithstanding the wide […]