Modi magic intact, Bihar and other poll results affirm
The BJP’s emergence as the dominant power in Bihar despite the close finish in the assembly polls coupled with the by-election sweep in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, and…
Sudhir Kumar Singh
Sudhir Kumar Singh is an independent journalist who has worked in senior editorial positions in the Times Of India, Asian Age, Pioneer, and the Statesman. Also a sometime stage and film actor who has worked with iconic directors like Satyajit Ray and Tapan Sinha. He writes regularly for the HinduPost as consulting editor.
Knives out for Arnab, Centre recumbent before a fascist state
A rogue regime is running the show in Maharashtra, and all the ammunition the Centre has in its arsenal to check the state’s descent into full blown fascism are homilies….
The BJP seems not to value its friends and allies
The video image of a young man being dragged to court by the police with a rope tied to his hands and the face under a shroud would ordinarily be…
Why is the BJP shy of calling the Congress anti-national?
Can the Congress led by 74-year-old Antonia Maino and her middle-aged progenies be trusted to protect the country’s national and security interests? Is the party pronouncedly anti-Hindu? Most of us…
Amit Shah should act against Param Bir Singh
The Yogi Adityanath regime’s decision to handover a case against unknown persons to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the Television Rating Point (TRP) scam has turned…
SC woke up on Shaheen Bagh after damage was done
The emphatic judgement delivered on October 7 by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul on the untenability of Shaheen Bagh like protests should…
A Shaheen Bagh encore was neutralized at Hathras
Bharat’s social fault lines are more deeply entrenched than often imagined. Hathras like killings will therefore keep happening till stronger laws allowing for summary trials and swift sentences are legislated…
The BJP still cannot do without Nitish in Bihar
The countdown to the three-phased 2020 assembly poll in Bihar beginning October 28 is turning out to be singular even by the state’s own unpredictably chaotic standards. The political churn…
If the FCRA Bill kills anti-Bharat NGOs, so be it
The Opposition’s efforts to stir trouble over the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020, passed by the Rajya Sabha on September 22 on the ground that it will kill the…
Modi double blow corners self-serving farmer lobbies, NGOs
The double whammy delivered by the Narendra Modi regime with the passage in the Rajya Sabha of the three radical farm Bills, and the tightening of controls over NGOs, especially…