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Pride and prejudice

FROM THE ARCHIVE: How the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government was trying to ram through a Hindu sectarian agenda in culture and education in 1999.

By Praful Bidwai

/ 26 Jun 2015

Sri Lanka is moving ahead with path-breaking peace talks. At the northern end of South Asia, the relative success of the legislative assembly elections provides New Delhi with an opportunity to revise its long-hardened policy on Jammu and Kashmir.

By Praful Bidwai

/ 1 Nov 2002

Dalits and Adivasis: Cannon fodder for Hindutva?

Gujarat's 'mobs' are not a random mix of Hindu activists. Rather, they are the designed outcome of the RSS-VHP-BJP strategy to weaken Dalit-Adivasi activism and turn

By Praful Bidwai

/ 1 May 2002

PARADIGM SHIFT

As the communal carnage in Gujarat enters its third month, the Vajpayee government has fashioned a three-pronged strategy: brazen out the opprobrium, attack domestic and international critics of Narendra Modi

By Praful Bidwai

/ 1 May 2002

MORE IS BETTER

India's make-up will soon start looking different. Backward Bihar will no longer be its second most populous state. That status will go to Maharashtra, India's most

By Praful Bidwai

/ 1 Nov 2000

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

At the same time as India gets ready to launch the 'second phase' of neo-liberal economic 'reforms', the Bharatiya Janata Party-dominated government is trying to ram

By Praful Bidwai

/ 30 Nov 1999

SABOTAGED SUMMIT

The Indian government led by the hard-line Bharatiya Janata Party has put a spoke in the wheel of SAARC (South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation), by forcing a postponement of

By Praful Bidwai

/ 31 Oct 1999

Whose nationalism?

The Kargil mess may well lead to the use of Great Power influence in South Asia, something which New Delhi has resisted for decades For a military engagement which New

By Praful Bidwai

/ 30 Jun 1999

Not many Left

Man Mohan Adhikari, Nepal's "democratic communist" died on 26 April 1999, after collapsing during his campaign as the prime ministerial candidate for the Communist Party of

By Praful Bidwai

/ 30 Apr 1999

VOTE OF OVERCONFIDENCE

The Collapse of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government barely 13 months after coming to power has sent an unambiguous message to India's politicians: ultranationalism, hawkishness on matters of

By Praful Bidwai

/ 30 Apr 1999

A nuclear family

The BJP´s nuclear misad venture is proving in comparably costlier than earlier imagined. After the worst-ever buffeting at the Conference on Disarmament, P-5 meeting and Security Council, New Delhi

By Praful Bidwai

/ 30 Jun 1998

Doomsday clock

India's tests were devoid of strategic rationale. Even before 11 May, India was militarily more secure than it had been a decade previously, owing to improved relations with

By Praful Bidwai

/ 31 May 1998