Notwithstanding the liberal’s chest beating about India’s soul being crushed under the upsurge of the wave of Hindu nationalism, it was their visceral hatred for Modi phenomenon that had engendered this new India. Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: India today stands on the cusp of a change; a change brought by the new wave of a majority […]
Was an opportunity to let go Nepal when the providence was knocking at its door to make it a part of its sovereignty, another Nehruvian policy blunder, as it was a vis-a-vis Tibet and Kashmir, which is reflecting so adversely on India today ? Vivekanand Jha, Ranchi: Pranab Mukherjee’s autobiography, The Presidential Years, has once […]
Basanta Lohani. Indra Chowk is more or less the same as it was some seventy-three ago except the black-topped road in the place of slabs and a renovated temple on the western side. It was called Sahar, the city by all those living beyond Ranipokhari and adjoining Tundikhel where the kith and kin of Rana […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]