George Fernandes: Rebel without a pause

A NEIGHBOUR in Delhi, who happens to be a Narendra Modi devotee, asked me which leader Pakistanis would want as India's next prime minister. Im no clairvoyant, I told the elderly gentleman from Punjab. There are Pakistanis and Pakistanis. The ones I ...

Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church is hell and nuns live a life of hell, abused and battered": are among the statements published yesterday by the newspaper "Charaiveti" (which in Hindi means "Go ahead") published in the city Bhopal, the capital ...

This piece is in praise of Gu­jarat's hero, Naren­dra Modi. In India, politics is visceral and emotional, not iss­ue-based. Indians can rarely, if ever, appreciate or even concede the qualities of those they don't agree with. This is one reason ...

NEW DELHI: Toeing an independent line on Nitin Gadkari issue and extending a premature welcome to Gujarat CM Narendra Modi has taken a toll on editors of two of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) flagship publications Panchjanya (Hindi) and ...

Countercurrents.org Ur-Fascism [Eternal Fascism] is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be much easier for us if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Blackshirts to parade again ...

National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Loksabha seats Rajyasabha seats India }} The Bharatiya Janata Party (; translation: Indian People's Party; abbreviated BJP) is one of the two major parties in the Indian political system, the other being the Indian ...

One of the abiding myths created and sustained by the media is the huge dividends reaped by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the Hindutva card in general and the Ram Janmabhoomi movement in particular. Indeed, the six-year long rule of the BJP ...

By flaunting RSS-associated leaders in its line-up for the 2014 general election, the BJP fails to see that voters will reject politics not focussed on bread-and-butter issues One of the abiding myths created and sustained by the media is the huge ...

Countercurrents.org It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever ...