India Retold

MODI'S DOUBLE BLOW HITS WHERE IT HURTS

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:40:28 PDT

Ram Guha is deeply disturbed. Narendra Modi’s power punch at the recent India Today Conclave and a visit to Ahmedabad have hit him where it really hurts, and not for the reasons he has mentioned in...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

ANNA HAZARE, LISTEN TO THE RAGE

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:48:09 PDT

Anna Hazare. Who had heard of this soldier before the Great Jantar Mantar Tantar rattled an arrogant government that thought it had everything under firm control, right from the media to the BJP?I...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

LADEN DONE, KIYANI AND CO. NEXT?

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Tue, 03 May 2011 00:10:12 PDT

Think of Abbottabad as Ramgarh and Khadakvasla rolled into one, with a bit of old Dehra Dun thrown in. It is as complete a military town as you can find. With two Regimental Centers, Baluch and...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

PAK ARMY, THE TERROR MONSTER

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Sun, 08 May 2011 02:11:14 PDT

The obfuscations, the denials, the pretensions have gone on for far too long. For far too long the mountain of damning evidence that has been surfacing with telling regularity, steeped with the blood...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

BJP NEEDS, AND HAS, A BIG IDEA

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Wed, 18 May 2011 02:12:10 PDT

Some things are best said bluntly. Yes, wise men advise that it is better to lace the truth with sugar. But there are times when sugar cannot be its own antidote. And, with much syrup being served by...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

CAN BENGAL'S DURGA BECOME LAKSHMI?

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:11:25 PDT

Long after it became history elsewhere, communism has fallen in its last bastion. “Hindu” West Bengal has, at long, long last, freed itself of another foreign yoke, one that it had enthusiastically...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

ANNA, RAMDEV: DIVIDED THEY FELL

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:30:18 PDT

Flattery can fool the best of them. What to talk of a naïve Yog Guru and a simple villager surfing into the murky, merciless world of Indian politics on the wave of popular support and truth. In...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

RSS IS THE NEW ISI, THE LATTER A FRIEND

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:31:44 PDT

RSS is the new ISI. Chetan Bhagat has hit the nail where the BJP should have but, inexplicably, hasn’t.Ever since the Congress stormed back to power in 2009, it has launched such a vicious and...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

SUNETRA HARASSED, PRANNOY, MEDIA SHAMED

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:58:15 PDT

Sunetra Chaudhury’s stunning revelation about the sexual harassment she was subjected to by a senior politician has raised issues much more disturbing than the trauma she went through and had the...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

MUMBAI ONCE MORE

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:24:32 PDT

Mumbai has been hit once more. Will be hit many times over. Given the trajectory that our leaders and policy makers have put this nation on, it not a question of whether but when another terror...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

SA'FAI' BEGINS, PURGE NEEDED

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:46:05 PDT

The whitewash, sa’fai’, of the damning Faigate revelations that have sinister implications for India, both internally and in its responses to Pakistan, has begun. And, as expected, the usual suspects...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

ANNA AWAKENS 'WE THE PEOPLE'

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:07:53 PDT

Anna is everywhere. Everyone has something to say about him. And almost no one has read the anti-corruption Jan Lok Pal Bill (JLPB) they are supporting or savaging. The debate, therefore, is, for...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

INDIAN DEMOCRACY: CHANGE IS HERE

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:33:26 PDT

Well before Change arrives, discrete signs of the impending tumult start appearing, with increasing frequency and magnitude. Unfortunately, it is often in hindsight that seemingly stray straws are...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

ADVANI'S VYARTH YATRA

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:32:57 PDT

It is not Sonia Gandhi alone who has returned to a changed India after spending five weeks at an undisclosed location for an unknown surgery. Lal Krishna Advani too is in the same boat, despite...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

MODI ON HIS WAY TO ACCOMPLISHING 'MISSION IMPOSSIBLE'

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:15:22 PDT

Men are often put through fire by the Gods. Ordinary men are consumed or burnt by it; a chosen few emerge from it cleansed, purified and strengthened, and rise to meet the great demands that Destiny...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

MOVE OVER LSP, INDIA NEEDS LJP!

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:46:01 PDT

They are rich, they are famous, they are powerful. Their debating skills are unbeatable, their ability to twist facts unparalleled, their talent for dramatising the mundane unmatched. Their ideology...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

EMBRACE US, EUNUCHS

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:00:59 PDT

(Hafiz Saeed's song for India)Embrace us, do, we will hug you too,To make you forget what we remember;Many tiny cuts we will evermore inflict,To bleed you dry and then dismember.Every weapon on to...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

POLITICIANS AND PEOPLE'S TEMPLE

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:35:50 PDT

Politicians fume when shown the mirror, But will not fumigate Parliament ever; We are supreme! they scream in horror, Even thieves, rapists and criminals clever. Unelected tyrants! challenge us...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

No War Memorial. Still. 'Ye Dil Mange More'

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:20:18 PDT

One more Kargil Vijay Diwas is here. Another day to briefly remember India’s forgotten soldiers and push them out of sight again. As they have been for the last 65 years. Hard to believe, but the...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

INDIA AND THE SERPENT

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:44:30 PDT

India, an idea, is the plasticine of a few who mould it as per leader’s mind and shout from every pulpit: it’s true. Freedom indeed it is for them, and the led blind; blasphemy if you call their...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

NARENDRA MODI: THE LION KING HAS ARRIVED

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:36:14 PDT

The real game-changer, they have been saying of late, is Priyanka Vadra, nee Gandhi, the attractive wife of Robert, a once small-time Moradabad businessman who has become a billionaire almost...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

MOOD OF THE NATION: AMID THE GLOOM, HOPE

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:56:24 PST

There are no shades of grey here. The BJP is now tarred with same black that the Congress has been for the last few years. Nitin Gadkari – his innocence or otherwise notwithstanding -- has hurt his...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

IS BJP INDIA'S ENEMY OR PAKISTAN?

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:19:07 PST

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s outrageous allegation that “BJP and RSS conduct terror camps to spread terrorism” is not a shot in the dark. Made at Jaipur in the presence of Sonia Gandhi and...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

IT'S ABOUT CHANGING MAPS, NOT GEOGRAPHY

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:35:09 PST

You cannot change geography. This is the mantra often chanted by Indian peaceniks to explain their embrace of and love for Pakistan, the logic being that since you cannot wish away the rogue, it is...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.

MODI: TURNING BLEATERS INTO BEATERS

noreply@blogger.com (Vinod_Sharma) — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:35:15 PST

“India has decided to uproot Congress,” thundered Narendra Modi at the recently concluded National Council Meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party. And when he added -- to rapturous applause of BJP...

An analysis of the political, societal and security related developments that affect India as it readies to reclaim its place among the great nations of the world.