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Citizen is always manipulated
By T.J.S. George At last P.V. Narasimha Rao has been called what he really was, "the first BJP Prime Minister of India." The assertion is made by his own confidant P.V.R.K. Prasad…
25 Feb 2020 · 4 min read
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When God is not a vote catcher
By T.J.S. George Aam Aadmi's victory in Delhi was of course no surprise. Then again, it was a big surprise. How could a common man’s party win over a party headed by…
18 Feb 2020 · 4 min read
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The bad BJP faces the good BJP
By T.J.S. George Power makes small people smaller. When the wheel of history turned and BJP became the ruling party, many of its adherents saw India exclusively as Bharat, their inheritance to…
11 Feb 2020 · 4 min read
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Krishna Menon, alive and kicking
By T.J.S. George In the 1950s, the Urbs Prima in Indies was Bombay, not Delhi. All important people lived there, all influential newspapers were published there, all ideological battles were fought there.…
28 Jan 2020 · 4 min read
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Belur to Tagore: Who is Tagore ?
By T.J.S. George Prime Minister Modiji said at Belur Mutt: "Swami Vivekananda lives in the hearts and minds of crores of Indians." Then he said: "The new citizenship laws will not take…
21 Jan 2020 · 4 min read
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Warning: A New Generation Rises
By T.J.S. George What is happening to our country? Suddenly, it is a ship drifting in a storm, rudderless and captainless. The brutality that was unleashed in JNU last week was unprecedented,…
14 Jan 2020 · 4 min read
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Time for Gandhi's, Tagore's India
By T.J.S. George Allow me to welcome the New Year with some old words. Actually they are timeless words, always relevant. They are reminders of our heritage, our possibilities and our shortcomings.…
7 Jan 2020 · 4 min read
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In other words, who is lying?
By T.J.S George The President of India in June 2019, six months ago: "My Government has decided to implement the process of NRC (National Register of Citizens)." The Prime Minister of India…
31 Dec 2019 · 4 min read
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Freedom struggle all over again
By T.J.S. George All of a sudden India is in the throes of a second independence movement. Across the country, streets are aflame with rebellion, campuses are reverberating with protests, people are…
24 Dec 2019 · 4 min read
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Deve Gowda gets zero, must quit
By T.J.S. George When will Sri H.D. Deve Gowda realise that people are fed up with his politics? His own followers are fed up. Many have quit and joined the BJP, including…
17 Dec 2019 · 4 min read
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Spreading fear among the People
By T.J.S. George Rahul Bajaj's reference to "the atmosphere of fear in the country" has drawn widespread attention. Newspaper editorials and channel discussions carried its echoes. Failing to understand the mood of…
10 Dec 2019 · 4 min read
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About the tyranny of er... Others
By TJS George This week, I shall plagiarise. Without shame. I shall reproduce whole sentences from a book review in the Financial Times of London because they are sentences that sum up…
3 Dec 2019 · 4 min read
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Lawyers, Cops and The Individual
By T.J.S. George Unimaginable things happen in our country. Remember the scene news channels broadcast recently? A uniformed Police Officer leaving the premises of a Court in Delhi on his official bike…
26 Nov 2019 · 4 min read
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When everything turns communal
By T.J.S. George Come to think of it, everything in our country has a religious dimension to it — food, clothing, Universities, Hospitals, Civil Service, the professions like Law and Journalism, and…
19 Nov 2019 · 4 min read
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Tughlak lives, so do his ideas
By T.J.S. George Plans are proceeding at breakneck speed to change the history, geography, archaeology, philosophy and essence of Delhi. The central vista, the imposing Secretariat buildings, Raj Path with its sprawling…
12 Nov 2019 · 4 min read
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Pleasures of re-writing History
By T.J.S. George At last, someone said history should be re-written from India's point of view. Praise be to our Home Ministerji. As he said, Guptavanshik - Veer Skandgupta Vikramaditya is unknown…
5 Nov 2019 · 4 min read
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Economics Nobel goes to a cook
By T.J.S. George Let us say I am picked for the Nobel Prize for writing the finest newspaper column since printing began. Should I feel happy about it or dejected? That is…
30 Oct 2019 · 4 min read
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All about Queen Elizabeth and me
By T.J.S. George I have a personal link with the British royal family, in particular Queen Elizabeth. I was pleased, therefore, to see splendid photographs of her on British Parliament's opening day…
22 Oct 2019 · 4 min read
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Lynching and the ethos of Bharat
By T.J.S. George Okay, so lynching is phoren. "It never happened in Bharat," said Mohan Bhagwat, well informed on such matters. "It is not a word from Indian ethos." He then moved…
15 Oct 2019 · 4 min read
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Now we know Gandhi was a fraud
By T.J.S. George I have always felt patriotic and proud on Gandhi Jayanti days. Not this time. This time I was aware that Gandhi was a fake. As usual, newspapers were full…
10 Oct 2019 · 4 min read
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Secret of success: Showmanship
By T.J.S. George What spectacle! What drama! What breathtaking orchestration! Narendra Modi's pulling power was in evidence all through his triumphant tour of the US and especially his thundering performance at Houston…
1 Oct 2019 · 4 min read
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Why Malayalam Outclasses Hindi
By T.J.S. George Anything touching mother and mother-tongue is not negotiable. So strong is the sentiment that Amit Shah had to soften his stand. I am convinced that Malayalam should be declared…
24 Sept 2019 · 4 min read
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Butterflies and all things good
By T.J.S. George When you are a downside-up man condemned to horizontality in bed, you start imagining that the world is plotting against you. A butterfly on the window or an itch…
17 Sept 2019 · 4 min read
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World as seen from downside-up
By T.J.S. George I have hardly ever used, in more than two decades of writing this column, the word this sentence begins with — the first person singular I. Change is the…
10 Sept 2019 · 4 min read