State of the Union: India now yearns for a strong Opposition
7 years, 11 months ago

State of the Union: India now yearns for a strong Opposition

Deccan Chronicle  

It is now three weeks since the results of the last round of Assembly elections were announced. This country requires a strong Opposition” — followed by a long diatribe of how bad we were, but why we were also most needed at the moment. A retired general who was sitting next to me said: “I have advised my children not to come back to India as this country is turning into a totalitarian state.”. In November 2013, at the International Film Festival of India in Goa, I had prophesised that a great evil may soon stalk our land and that evil would come in the form of illiberalism and a constriction of India’s creative spaces. I had cautioned the assembled practitioners of the “arts” that an extremely bruising battle for the very soul of India would soon unfold.

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Op India  

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A brief history of the past 70 years
8 years ago

A brief history of the past 70 years

The Hindu  

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8 years ago

Why a strong Congress in Opposition is essential for Indian Democracy

India TV News  

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