By T.J.S. George Arun Jaitley's connection with Gujarat led to epochal developments. There he came in contact with Narendra Modi and chemistry got to work. Was it an accident of circumstance? Or…
Our sages anticipated this, hence the Vedic references to the maha pralaya that would trigger, at the end of the chaturyuga, cataclysmic events that wipe out all life on the planet. By…
By T.J.S. George When the makers of our Constitution used the term 'India that is Bharat,' the implication was that the cultural strength of ancient Bharat would energise the modernistic thrust of…
China expressed its scornfulness openly after a visit to Beijing in mid 2018 by Ram Madhav, considered a Chanakya by the BJP establishment for unknown reasons. He is famous for making the…
By T.J.S. George The noose is tightening around the freedoms that have kept India going. The Right to Information Act, as the very name suggests, was a pillar of democracy. It has…
By T.J.S. George If God is love, why does he allow suffering? A timeless question. The answer provided by religion is that suffering leads to enlightenment. So a rishi would stand on…
By T.J.S. George Rahul Gandhi’s insistence on not continuing as Congress President was the best thing that happened to the Congress in a long time. He must stick to it. Confusion and…
By T.J.S. George Finally, Kerala's sensational nun-rape case will move another step forward this week. Charges against the libidinous Bishop Franco Mulakkal will come up for hearing in a Magistrate's Court. Resourceful…
By T.J.S. George In a democracy, a working majority is better than a brute majority. This is especially so in a country like India where the structure of Democracy is honoured while…
By T.J.S. George No Parliament got off to a more disgraceful start than the one in session now. The Prime Minister struck a high note when he said that the Opposition should…
By T.J.S. George Many things will be said, and more remembered in silent wonderment, about Girish Karnad, who appeared as one person but was in fact a congregation of identities — actor,…
By T.J.S. George Here is an oddity that has not received the attention it deserves: In last month's voting, the South broke from the rest of India — and Karnataka broke from…
By T.J.S. George In the Congress Party's most inglorious hour, Rahul Gandhi struck a note that was gutsy and resolute. It was brave of him to expose the selfishness of some of…
By T.J.S. George When the enormity of it all sank in — the overwhelmingness of the exit polls, their near unanimous predictions, and then the final numbers that burst like pellet bombs…
By T.J.S. George Two days from today, India will change. That change will affect the country's fundamentals. If the BJP wins a majority, the ongoing attempts to recast the soul of India…
By T.J.S. George In the way he lived and interacted with others in everyday life, N.R. Madhava Menon was a very ordinary man. His extraordinariness came out when his mind opened up.…
By T.J.S. George The suicide bombers, who wreaked havoc in Sri Lanka, were all set to strike in Kerala too. Clearly, networks exist without borders and contacts are continuous. The ISIS, alleged…
By T.J.S. George The most traumatic part of India's elections is the post-vote waiting — a whole month this time. BP levels go up even for those not involved in politics because…
By T.J.S. George The wonder that is Indian elections is losing some of its wonderness. Statistically, of course, it remains a marvel — 880 million voters (total US population is 328 million),…
By T.J.S. George Winston Churchill told us that it wasn't polite to refer to lies as lies, that we should be cultured enough to call them terminological inexactitudes. But such phraseological definitudes…
By T.J.S. George Everyone knows that this election is a game-changer. It is becoming clear that it is a convention-breaker as well. Things that were no-no in electioneering are now accepted norms.…
By T.J.S. George Politicians big and small have commented variously on democracy. But the most perceptive observation came from an Anglican priest-turned-Cambridge-professor named W.R. Inge. "Democracy," he said, "is only an experiment…
By T.J.S. George The Congress and the BJP have one thing in common — each is led by a Superman. But the BJP's superman has a bunch of subalterns with him. That…
By T.J.S. George This is going to be the make or break election. It will either make the idea of India viable, or it will break it completely. The ruling dispensation knows…
