Hindustan Times
Around two decades ago, Prem Shankar Jha wrote a prescient piece about the coming of the new prosperity. Jha’s argument was that as India’s growth rate accelerated, this would lead to the rise of a new middle class comprising people who had benefited from the higher growth. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged BJP, Hindutva, Jaswant singh, Prem Shankar Jha, vir sanghvi
The first time most of us heard of Mushirul Hasan was in 1992. Asked whether he supported the ban on The Satanic Verses, Hasan said that while he found the book deeply offensive, he did not believe in banning books. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4.6 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Gandhi, Hasan, hindustan times, Hindutva, islam, Islamic fundamentalists, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Mushirul Hasan, Muslim community, Nehru, The Satanic Verses
When it comes to the Gujarat election, nothing is as simple as it seems. Take the BJP, for instance. It is a party in disarray, confounded by the virtual withdrawal of AB Vajpayee from public life, demolished in Uttar Pradesh, at war with itself and desperately in search of a coherent ideology. You would expect that because Gujarat offers the BJP its single best hope of a morale-boosting victory, the party would do everything possible to win the election.
(25 votes, average: 1.48 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged AB Vajpayee, BJP, BJP leadership’s, Gujarat Election, Hindu-Muslim, Hindutva, Hindutva Hero, Narendra Modi, RSS’s, Uttar Pradesh
