articles by Anirban Ganguly

Opinion

‘The world meets in one nest’: India’s G20 message as it assumes presidency

India’s attempt is to find a common civilisational articulation and approach that shall enable all stakeholders to move towards laying the foundational structure of a new global order, a fresh framework of cooperation, exchange and osmosis

India

Opposition’s vulture politics over a tragedy: Recalling Modi’s organic and umbilical attachment to Morbi and its people

It is only those driven by vulture politics, who are emitting hyena-laughs over the tragic Morbi bridge collapse and see in it an opportunity to politic over tragedy

India

Narendra Modi accords Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's legacy its rightful place as cynics sulk

For decades after Independence, Netaji’s legacy was paid perfunctory and ritual homage by successive Congress governments, whose leaders worked all the time, to dilute and to marginalise his unmatched contribution to the freedom movement

India

How Aurobindo’s ‘Bande Mataram’ called for absolute independence and yet escaped British fury

Bande Mataram, as Sri Aurobindo observed, ‘was never prosecuted for its editorial articles’. In fact, there were complaints against its highly skilled messaging

Politics

When a photograph is enough to suggest the deepening and strengthening of Indian democracy

All five BJP leaders in the photograph — Nitin Gadkari, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, JP Nadda and Narendra Modi — symbolise and represent ‘new India’, which is non-dynastic, ideology-driven and democratic in nature

Politics

Rampurhat massacre: West Bengal’s long, violent night without end

The Rampurhat massacre is just one more epitaph in democracy’s slow death in the Trinamool Congress-ruled state

Politics

A tale of two parties: How BJP’s win saw peace and amity, but Mamata’s victory led to violence and anarchy

The attitude and behaviour of the BJP’s cadre and the rank and file, post victory, clearly show that the saffron party is essentially and fundamentally the only democratic political structure and movement in India today

Politics

How Mamata Banerjee has outdone the Left in muffling democratic voices in West Bengal

The Trinamool regime is very much reminiscent of the communist rule; only the scale, the sophistication with a light democratic veneer, is much higher than what the Left did in its heydays.

Politics

BJP’s national executive meet shows why people continue to trust the party and Narendra Modi​

Unlike the ad-hocism of the CWC meets, the BJP’s NEC meets have always seen major deliberations, discussions and have often been the venue or platform for imparting historic turns to the party

Politics

Mamata Banerjee would do well to keep these 9 points in mind while playing coronavirus politics, writes BJP’s policy research wing member

The West Bengal government headed by Mamata Banerjee is perhaps the only state government which is displaying a peculiarly negative attitude in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic

Politics

Kolkata rally: Fear of Narendra Modi forces Opposition to hold hands, but Mamata Banerjee's own constituency is slowly sinking, writes BJP's Anirban Ganguly

The Trinamool Congress, fragmented into factions and syndicates, is itself fast turning into a family conglomerate with Mamata’s nephew not only controlling the levers of power but meddling into the affairs of the party and the state.

Politics

Rahul Gandhi's flippant performance in Parliament proves he can never be trusted with serious affairs of the state

It is clear after Friday's rigmarole that Rahul Gandhi is no longer – if at all he ever was – the natural leader of an anti-Narendra Modi alliance. He lacks the depth, the appeal, the grace and the understanding to try and even garner such a front

India

Narendra Modi is right: Jawaharlal Nehru failed to appreciate foresight of General Thimayya, Field Marshal Cariappa

Narendra Modi has hit where it hurts the most and has reiterated the historic reality that Jawaharlal Nehru had insulted General KS Thimayya.

India

Warm welcome given to Narendra Modi in Berlin shows strengthening of trust between India, Germany

Narendra Modi’s stopover in Berlin presented a glimpse into many of the undercurrents in India’s transformed presence in the international community.