For Balochs, it’s human rights and freedom from Pakistan
On August 15, 2016, India commemorated her 70th Independence Day at Red fort Delhi, where the Prime Minister of the world largest democratic country, Narendra Modi, delivered one of his most famous speeches in which he first time openly mentioned ‘Balochistan’. It signalled that India
Reclaiming the Spirit of “India First”
Ever since its founding Pakistan has been relentlessly pursuing the goal of bleeding India through a thousand cuts. This blind and irrational and chimera prone attitude has led to tensions in the region. In its quest to try to destabilize India, Pakistan has gone into a spree of sponsoring terrorism
There’s victory for ABVP in defeat in JNU election
While the ABVP once again secured a massive mandate in the DUSU election, in JNU the results went in favour of the communists. It was the seventh time in a row that the ABVP won three to four seats in the DUSU election since 2010, and also registered remarkable victories in the students’
In a family that’s into politics, three is always a big crowd
Let none be misled by the compromise which Samajwadi party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has hammered out. His son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and brother and senior party leader Shivpal Yadav are still at loggerheads, though they will not forcefully knock each other down at
Time has come For India to get serious about Hindu studies
Former High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Veena Sikri, currently the Chair of the ICCR Committee for Assessment of Indian Cultural Centres, recently introduced an erudite Irishman, a no-onion-no-garlic Hindu scholar, to a small group in New Delhi. The gentleman is coincidentally from the Swami Vivekananda era Sister Nivedita’s home-town, in Ireland.
The Foreign Policy Swerve
PRAFUL SHANKAR It may seem strange now but in the run-up to the 2014 General Election, most of the commentaries which surrounded the candidacy of Narendra Modi for Prime Minister-ship always contained a mention of Foreign Policy in lists of his supposed weaknesses. Whatever reason the commentators may have had to do so, it was
Today’s Congress as confused as Nehru’s Congress had been
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the human rights violations in Balochistan in all party meetings and also mentioned it in his Independence Day speech, Balochs across the world began thanking him and hoped he would continue to support them. With a view to having greater
Jio challenge and the inevitability of change and progress
It’s not just because Reliance Jio, the $15 billion investment off the Reliance cash balances, just launched, has made an aggressive pitch towards instant market leadership. Jio is offering free ‘voice’, while charging for data usage, the real revenue McCoy, but in small chunks, for little
India’s defence diplomacy finally coming of age
There has been a great deal of discussion over the merits and demerits of India having signed the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) with the United State of America. Critics of the deal have slammed the Modi Government for ‘kowtowing’ to the US, while
Myopic opposition cannot appreciate benefits of Modi’s Balochistan stance
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hit three birds with a single stroke when he uttered the ‘B’ word in the same breath as Pak-occupied Kashmir. First, is of course Pakistan itself. For a state that would face existential crisis if it tones down its anti-India rhetoric, Balochistan is the issue which hits
