Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Bharat vs India: Don't create new fault lines
1 year, 3 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Bharat vs India: Don't create new fault lines

Deccan Chronicle  

Turkiye is the old/new name for Turkey that Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had adopted for his country. President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent out invitations in the name of Bharat, Ms Murmu as President of Bharat and Mr Modi as Prime Minister of Bharat, instead of the customary President of India and Prime Minister of India for the G-20 summit in New Delhi. Like Mr Erdogan, Mr Modi is on a mission to decolonise India, to in one sense “Indianise” India. The Modi government was not breaking any norms because “Bharat” is official, much too official, as it is enshrined in the Constitution in the words “India, that is Bharat…” The official communications of the Central government are always in the name of “Bharat Sarkar”, or Bharat Government. There is the immediate political provocation from the Opposition bloc calling itself “INDIA”, and Mr Modi, never the one to let pass a rapier thrust from his rivals, has resorted to the easily available constitutional alternative of “Bharat”.

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India or Bharat? A dinner invite sparks speculation as Modi’s ministers push to rebrand the country
1 year, 3 months ago

India or Bharat? A dinner invite sparks speculation as Modi’s ministers push to rebrand the country

Associated Press  

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‘India’ or ‘Bharat’? A G-20 dinner invite sparks rumors of a national rebrand
1 year, 3 months ago

‘India’ or ‘Bharat’? A G-20 dinner invite sparks rumors of a national rebrand

LA Times  

An Indian fan at the Cricket World Cup holds a flag that uses the Sanskrit word for India, “Bharat.” It began with a dinner invitation. State-issued invites sent to guests of this week’s G-20 meeting in New Delhi referred to India’s ceremonial president, Droupadi Murmu, as “President of Bharat.” Suddenly, in many circles, the question was everywhere: Would the country …

Akhand Bharat will be reality before today’s generation gets old: RSS Chief
1 year, 3 months ago

Akhand Bharat will be reality before today’s generation gets old: RSS Chief

Live Mint  

Amid the India versus Bharat row, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat commented that `Akhand Bharat' or undivided India will be a reality before today's generation becomes old. RSS chief comment comes amidst the ongoing name change debate sparked by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's G20 dinner invite shared on X, referring to Droupadi Murmu as ‘President of Bharat,’. Opposition parties, …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Are the gloves off for the Battle of 2024? Not yet…
1 year, 4 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Are the gloves off for the Battle of 2024? Not yet…

Deccan Chronicle  

It is going to be a mean half-year and more to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, and the people by and large are generally not interested in it, nor are they invested in it. If the Opposition is keen to nail the Narendra Modi government, it has to conduct a focused and forceful election campaign, and speak directly to the …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Opposition needs a credible face to counter Modi in 2024
1 year, 5 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Opposition needs a credible face to counter Modi in 2024

Deccan Chronicle  

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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Karnataka poses challenge to BJP's Hindutva strategy
1 year, 8 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Karnataka poses challenge to BJP's Hindutva strategy

Deccan Chronicle  

The Narendra Modi-Amit Shah domination of the BJP seems to have taken a beating in the run-up to the Karnataka Assembly elections next month, with the inner party turbulence revealing that the Hindutva party cannot enjoy the meek obedience that it is used to in the Hindi-speaking states like Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh, and of course in Gujarat. …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Dreams left undisturbed in Budget amid economic lull
1 year, 10 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Dreams left undisturbed in Budget amid economic lull

Deccan Chronicle  

It is a curiously different Union Budget statement that finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Ms Sitharaman made it clear that this year’s Budget is the second part of last year’s exercise, delineating the goals of “Amrit Kaal”, the 25-year period running from 2022, the 75th year of India’s Independence, till the 100th in 2047. …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s culture wars: A clash of ignorant armies
1 year, 11 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s culture wars: A clash of ignorant armies

Deccan Chronicle  

The term “culture wars” is a common phrase in the American political discourse. There is then no worthy clash of ideas between the Hindu liberals and the Hindu right-wingers, and it dissolves into the proverbial heat and dust sans light. So, the two Hindu groups fighting with each other over Hindu identity – the liberals believe that Hindu culture is …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India@75 mood: Uneasy sense of triumphalism…
2 years, 4 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India@75 mood: Uneasy sense of triumphalism…

Deccan Chronicle  

So, what’s the mood? It is a tricky issue indeed because the mood could change quite quickly, and one could look slightly foolish to have stuck one’s head out and say: “This is the mood”. Or shall we say: “How’s the josh?” If we go by the speeches of politicians like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | BJP a political beneficiary of Hindu-Muslim clashes
2 years, 8 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | BJP a political beneficiary of Hindu-Muslim clashes

Deccan Chronicle  

There was a clash between groups of Hindus and Muslims near a mosque in Jahangirpuri in northwest Delhi on the evening of Sunday, April 17, as a Hanuman Jayanti procession called Shobha Yatra was passing by the mosque. A determined BJP government at the Centre — the municipal corporations come under the jurisdiction of the Union home ministry in the …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Why it’s tough to invest in India: Fix the bottlenecks
2 years, 11 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Why it’s tough to invest in India: Fix the bottlenecks

Deccan Chronicle  

Global business leaders attending the virtual meeting of the Davos-based World Economic Forum on January 17 must have heard Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping with curiosity, if not with rapt attention. Mr Modi is keen about attracting foreign investments to India, something that he has been assiduously canvassing in Davos ever since he became Prime Minister, …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Modi-Yogi shock & awe campaign work in UP polls?
3 years ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Modi-Yogi shock & awe campaign work in UP polls?

Deccan Chronicle  

There is a feverish inauguration spree in Uttar Pradesh in the run-up to the Assembly elections early next year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated nine medical colleges in the districts of Siddharthnagar, Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Deoria, Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Jaunpur, all in Purvanchal, the eastern part of the state, on October 25. And in the same week, the …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hindutva a weak riposte as BJP faces Patidar challenge
3 years, 3 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hindutva a weak riposte as BJP faces Patidar challenge

Deccan Chronicle  

There are two acts in the BJP’s drama of changing chief ministers in Gujarat this year. Vijay Rupani, who was made the chief minister in 2017 when the party fell below 100 seats in the 182-member Assembly, resigned on Saturday, with a year and two months to go before the next election in December 2022. in the pre-glasnost era. The …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hosabale's rise: RSS-BJP ties still remain opaque
3 years, 8 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Hosabale's rise: RSS-BJP ties still remain opaque

Deccan Chronicle  

The myth about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the BJP is that they are independent entities, though umbilically linked through ideology. But many political observers have no doubt that the BJP’s rule is in effect the rule of the RSS, and that Hindutva is the ideological glue. Most BJP leaders are not willing to admit that they are mere pawns …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Congress drifts as real issues are left ignored
4 years ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Congress drifts as real issues are left ignored

Deccan Chronicle  

The faction-ridden, intrigues-infested Congress Party, even in its decrepit state, remains more interesting for political observer than the regimented Bharatiya Janata Party, with the monotonous hectoring of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the few chosen leaders who are licensed to speak. The meeting convened by party president Sonia Gandhi, which included Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and the 23 …

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Puja at Ayodhya: Modi’s bid to seal BJP’s future?
4 years, 4 months ago

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Puja at Ayodhya: Modi’s bid to seal BJP’s future?

Deccan Chronicle  

It will be futile to bewail the violation of secularism with Prime Minister Narendra Modi participating in the “bhoomi pujan” of the Ram Mandir a little after Wednesday noon. The BJP and Mr Modi would like to believe that it will, and they have taken all the pains to prove that the temple was now happening because the party had …

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