The Jinnah djinn is out to hound the BJP again. This time it is Jaswant Singh who’s courting ire from the Sangh Parivar for his book on Jinnah. Jaswant Singh’s work warrants appreciation but there’s been nothing but scorn from political circles. No politician worth his/her salt has stuck his head out favourably for Jaswant [...]
The early 1990s were politically significant in mainly two respects –
1. the emergence of caste politics.
2. the emergence of the BJP.
Theoretically speaking, the emergence of one should have been the end of the other. After all, one seeks to construct a solid block of voters who vote solely in the name of religious hooliganism [...]
The results are out and as expected the BJP has lost. What has followed the loss is unprecedented fighting within the party. During this campaign, they never looked like winning. This election has marked the transformation of a ‘party with a difference’ into a ‘party with differences’. Here are a few mistakes that I think [...]