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In the pantheon of India's Prime Ministers something about Narendra Modi makes him an exceptional Prime Minister. Understanding the exceptionality requires a review the regime he has given India. In 2014 Mr Modi burst upon the national political scene like a tornado promising what he presented as a new way of doing government, e...

I have no truck or trade with the political parties in India. From time to time I've supported various causes and movements in India that I thought might benefit the country. Even now India really lacks and desperately needs a broad based social and political movement for fundamental change. I would be prepared to participate in one that I felt was...

  The apparent standoff between the Collegium that recommends appointments to the senior judiciary and the Modi government on the question of Justice Joseph's appointment to the Supreme Court of India is disquieting if not downright disruptive. As the law stands the Collegium proposes and the government appoints unless it has any legitimate co...

  In Karnataka, Dhanyashree, a young woman barely twenty years old, has taken her life; I say she was cruelly driven to her death. She was harassed on social media and in person by the Hidutva vigilantes in their fight against the so called Love Jihad. This heinous vigilantism has been unleashed, or rather uncorked, by the many fronts of the H...