The jokers of Bharatiya Janata Party!

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

There was a time that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of which Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the main component, was actually taken seriously by some very informed people of India. Today the same Bharatiya Janata Party is a collection of jokers who don’t even know where to point the finger. So they collectively decided [...]

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The evolution of India’s foreign policy – Part X

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

There has been enough material available on India’s foreign policy but most of it has been published by local experts. Some of us who have been based in the United States for the last 20 years see the evolution of India’s foreign policy little differently. I have quoted Aneek Chatterjee of Presidency College, Kolkata in [...]

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BJP seems to have shot itself in the foot!

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Pavan Gupta

Bharatiya Janata Party has once again decided to play its Hindutva card for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in India. BJP which is part of a larger National Democratic Alliance had a 50-50 chance in 2004 general elections as an incumbent party. It was shocked when it was defeated because of its failure to look [...]

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A middle-aged and senile BJP?

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Pavan Gupta

Who could have imagined just four years back when the BJP was riding high and India was shining, that NDA (National Democratic Alliance) could be defeated? The congress party was like a retired group of bureaucrats running around in circles. Then the general elections were held in 2004 and the bottom fell under the BJP’s [...]

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‘The Post American World’ is disappointing…

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Pavan Gupta

Fareed Zakaria’s latest release ‘The Post American World’ is a disappointing study. I expected a lot from a scholar of his stature. Fareed talks about ‘The Rise of the Rest’ but got stuck with China and India. There is no mention of the rising importance of a country like Australia, a major raw material supplier [...]

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