When the royal Bengal tigress will take on the Asiatic lion of Gir in a battle where two individuals will clash for ‘yes, I am a Bengali tag’, in the unique contest between two individuals where parties are rendered redundant, as votes will be sought in the name of Modi or Mamata, on the ground […]
Opinion
Rediscovering Swami Vivekananda anew
Vivekanand Jha, Ranchi . With the world scorched by the radicalisation of ideological hatred for each other tearing the societies apart; with the racial supremacists –be it white, Islamist or Hindu nationalists–pre-destined to leverage their demographic dividends, the lofty doctrinaire belief of the world being anything but one big family, had long receded to the […]
When Nitish Kumar proved himself a Kurmi leader
Vivekanand jha, Ranchi. The pan Bihari identity that Nitish Kumar sought to build when he gave a clear call of ‘Han, Ham Bihari hain’, stands incontrovertibly punctured at the altar of his anointing a successor from his own Kurmi caste, despite there being several competent leaders from forward castes. Willy nilly it has struck a […]
When Bengal is at the historic crossroad.
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 […]
Will Modi government grant Sushma Swaraj her earnest wish?
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 […]
How long Nehru will continue to be the favourite whipping boy of the Sangh Parivar?
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 […]
Today’s Namak ka Deroga versus the famous ‘Namak ka Daroga’ of Munsi Premchandje
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, […]
India’s policy paralysis to cope with China.
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 […]
Trinity of faux Gandhis : Vivekanand Jha
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 […]
Jinhay naaz hai Hind par wo kahan hai : Vivekanand Jha
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 […]