BJP - Himal Southasian (Page 9)

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

Communalism at Large

The BJP's weaknesses as a political party make it doubly dangerous as far as the non-Hindu minorities of India are concerned. Of the many liturgies of nationalism in

By The Editors

/ 1 Apr 2002

The Indian State and the Madrasa

Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition I ' assumed office at the Centre in India, there has been a spate of attacks on Muslim madrasas (religious schools), mosques and

By Yoginder Sikand

/ 1 Sep 2001

A NOT-SO-DISCREET OPERATION SANSKRIT

One of the first things that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government embarked on when it came to power was to 'rectify' the various institutional anomalies

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2001

Epic war

It is clear that there is a campaign of terror, not necessarily coordinated, underway against selected minorities in India. This has serious implications for the country´s democratic polity, one

By Samuel Thomas

/ 31 Jul 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

BRUTE MAJORITY

It took New Delhi two days to respond to the sharp rebuke administered in September by the US State Department to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its militant

By S.N.M. Abdi

/ 30 Sep 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

THEOCRATIC THREAT

India With the BJP having come to power at the centre, and having emerged as a formidable force all over North India, Christians are now fast joining Muslims and Dalits

By Yoginder Sikand

/ 31 Jan 1999

IT’S JUST NOT CRICKET

Fringe extremists on both sides of the India-Pakistan border are feeding off each other to kill, maim and brutalise their people in the name of religion. It must be one

By Beena Sarwar

/ 31 Jan 1999

Cardboard Swadeshi

How "swadeshi" is the BJP? A checklist suggests maybe not very much.

By Vandana Shiva and Claude Alvares

/ 1 May 1998