The Gujarat deputy CM Nitin Patel has cautioned that if Hindus were to be reduced to a minority, or if India’s Muslim population were just to increase, democracy in India would disappear

Rise as amazons of the mind, And set yourselves free From their jejune claims to lordship. Get battle-ready, and shoot from the hip

That support for Narendra Modi as the best choice for the next prime minister has plummeted is a telling affirmation of the people’s alertness to the objective status of the Union and of their stakes within it

Are We to Remember or Transcend the Past?

It is also apparent that a concerted and barely concealed plan seems afoot to demand that Muslims be kept segregated from the ‘true Indians’, namely, Hindu Indians

In the middle of this, democracy performs at break-neck speed

It is strange that the Modi government, which denies targeting the individuals named, does not feel impelled to find out who it is that may be attacking democratic opinion critical of the establishment

Think what in our fallen times Has become of Pegasus; Turned into a poisoned beep, He is made to spy on us

Narendra Modi’s praise of India’s “demographic dividend” notwithstanding, the right-wing via the Uttar Pradesh chief minister may have come up with an idea close to the heart of India’s chattering classes

Fire, fire, everywhere, As far as the eye can span; Fire across the continents, Fire in the mind of man