Hindustan Times
The BJP needs a new Atal Bihari Vajpayee, not a Narendra Modi struggling to live down a gory past to qualify as Prime Minister. Read more
(106 votes, average: 2.55 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, September 19, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Filed under india · Tagged 2002 riots, Ahmedabad, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Babri Mosque, bjp, congress, gujarat, hindustan times, hindutva, JD (U), Kalyan Singh, L K Advani, Mayawati, Narendra Modi, news, seperated at birth, UPA, Vinod Sharma
I have had two reasons to be happy this week— the successful start of the Commonwealth Games and the equanimity with which the people of India received the Court judgment in the Ayodhya case. Read more
(24 votes, average: 2.92 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, October 4, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Apex Court, athletes, Ayodhya verdict, Babri Mosque, bjp, Commonwealth Games, Constitution, High Court, historians, india, L K Advani, Lord Rama, Mosque, Nirmohi Akhara, Ram Lalla Virajman, Sunni Wakf Board, Temple
There is just one problem — as I see it— with Home Minister P Chidambaram’s coloured description of terrorism attributed to fringe groups run by Hindu zealots. Read more
(22 votes, average: 2.45 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, August 30, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Filed under india · Tagged 1984 riots, Advani, Ayodhya, Babri Mosque, bhagva, bjp, congress, Hindu, Hinduism, Home Minister P Chidambaram, intelligence, Islamic terror, jehadist violence, Malegaon blasts, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Nationalist Congress Party, RSS, saffron terror, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Sikh, terrorism
(39 votes, average: 2.44 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Hindustan Times on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Anju Gupta, Babri Mosque, BJP leader, civil servants, LK Advani, powerful politicians
Political lexicons across the world have unique local flavors. India’s no exception. But I’m flummoxed when secular fundamentalists’ charge the Congress of practicing soft Hindutva. Those who confuse political tactics for ideology fail to see the wood for the trees.
The Congress’s consciously timid response to the Liberhan Commission’s report on the demolition of the Babri Mosque is no proof really of it having abandoned secularism as a way of doing politics. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Aligarh Muslim University, Babri Mosque, Bharatiya Janata Party, hindutva, Liberhan Commission, Mughal Emperor Babbar, Political lexicon, Rahul Gandhi, secularism
