Utpal Kumar
The saga of Sengol: How India was reborn as Hindu in 1947, but the Nehruvian lords of Lutyens conspired to steal it
The ‘discovery’ of Sengol marks the rediscovery of civilisational India that had deliberately been relegated to the margins in the name of cultivating ‘scientific tempers’
Karnataka lessons: RSS and BJP must rediscover their ideological moorings — it’s smart politics that’s good for nation
The crux of the problem in BJP-ruled Karnataka was in the ideological fluidity of those in power. This not just made the government susceptible to corruption, but also enfeebled the state to take on anti-India jihadi forces operating within its boundaries
BJP’s Karnataka disaster wasn’t just about corruption, it was also about state’s failure to stand up to Islamist terror
The party and the government it led in Karnataka not just failed to protect Hindutva activists, but also didn’t do enough to look after the families of those killed during the previous Congress dispensation
Religious Freedom Report 2022 is timed to tarnish the image of India and PM Modi ahead of his US visit
The US-led West wants India by its side, but only to push the Western interest — just like Zelenskyy’s Ukraine. This explains a flurry of anti-India reports emanating from the West aimed at sullying the image of India and pushing for a regime change in 2024
Meiteis too have rights: Manipur is a grievous outcome of the Nehruvian folly of outsourcing Northeast to missionaries
Manipur often finds itself on the edge due to the twin Nehruvian blunder — of unilaterally handing over the Northeast to missionaries, and appeasing Naga insurgents at the cost of others. It’s time for course correction
Imran Khan’s endgame has begun: Supreme Court relief is momentary, political pain is permanent
Imran Khan may have got some relief in the Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday, but it’s a temporary respite. This week’s protests and acts of vandalism aimed at the army have actually sealed his fate in Pakistani politics
Time for 'liberals' to wake up and smell 'The Kerala Story': Love jihad is real and not figment of Hindutva imagination
With first ‘The Kashmir Files’ and now ‘The Kerala Story’, India’s dark secrets are tumbling out of the Left-‘liberal’ closet, to be finally discussed and debated in the open
A tale of two Bhuttos: Why India should be thankful to Pakistan for having a Bilawal-like Foreign Minister
With Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the helm, it was a kind of a walkover in Goa for India’s diplomatic team that is currently being handled quite deftly by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar
‘A Republic of South India’ may still be possible, and blame for this rests with Left-‘liberal’-missionary ecosystem
If at all, the Modi government can be accused of not doing enough to challenge the anti-India forces that have been bent on decimating Hinduism down South. The liberation of Hindu temples from immoral state control can be a good starting point — and it’s a low-hanging fruit too
Why entertaining the idea of a ‘republic of south India’ is mischievous, dangerous and outright ahistorical
The Westernised liberals may sneeringly look for the glue in cricket, Bollywood and what not, but the fact is it is the common civilisational heritage that makes India one nation
Why Nitish Kumar leading the charge against Narendra Modi exposes political bankruptcy of Opposition camp
In the 1990s and the early 2000s, Nitish Kumar took refuge in Delhi when his going got difficult in Patna. He hopes to do the same in the mid-2020s. History, after all, repeats itself. But then, to his hard luck, Indian politics has moved on
In ‘elusive’ pursuit of peace with Pakistan: How an ace diplomat gets the story right but lessons wrong
The late Satinder Kumar Lambah showed great understanding of the nature of the Pakistan state. But this did not stop him from chasing the chimera of peaceful existence with Pakistan; in fact, he had been the most preferred diplomat to carry out this task on behalf of the Government of India. Why?
Satyapal Malik’s ‘revelation’ is a classic case of having the cake and eating it too
Satyapal Malik’s endeavour to use the Pulwama incident to target the government, and worse, bail out Pakistan, cannot be justified. More so because he was the one who presided over the tragedy, being the head of the erstwhile state
Projecting lawbreaker as lawmaker: Why Western media fails to see a gangster in Atiq Ahmed
By downplaying the criminal past of former MP Atiq Ahmed, the Western media wants to put a question mark on Indian democracy. This, however, is a case of law and order violations, much like the epidemic of gun culture in the US
The Dalai Lama ‘tongue’ saga exposes the fallacy and faithlessness of modern mind
The incident is a reminder to the modern, tech-savvy man about the loss of his faith and reasoning. This has made him shallow and bottomless. He is full of information, but has a dearth of understanding. This has made him a faithless, judgemental and pretentious know-it-all being
West is playing a dangerous, Soros-ian game in India — and Rahul Gandhi’s Congress shouldn’t be a part of it
George Soros plans to usher in his model of ‘democracy’ in India by unleashing the hidden hands of capitalism to bring together the disparate, violent and nihilistic ideologies of Islamism, Khalistanism and Communism
India and US can’t be allies, but they have to be friends for the liberal world order to remain ‘liberal’ and ‘ordered’
India and the US need each other for their own interests, and also the sustenance of the liberal world order, currently under threat from the Chinese
Selection of a new Tibetan Buddhist leader stumps Xi Jinping: Now, he must be ready for Dalai Lama shocker
If the 15th Dalai Lama reincarnates in India, and that too before the death of the current one, it would be game up for China’s Tibetan stratagem — at least for the time being
As Russia is drawn deep into Chinese Orbit, Xi Jinping must thank Americans for changing world order in his favour
Xi Jinping, in the company of Vladimir Putin, should be a relieved man today. The lack of American imagination vis-à-vis Russia, resulting in the Ukraine war, has brought China at the striking distance of ushering in a new world order
If Khalistanis can storm Indian High Commission in London, why not give same rights to Argentinian protesters in Delhi?
Time is ripe for the West to realise that India’s patience is running thin. Anyway, friendship can’t be a one-way traffic