Modi turns foreign policy as tool of national strategies

(File photo of S. Jaishankar who took over as India’s External Affairs Minister) This is the season for political gossiping and for tossing hypotheses into the air. Most of them perish, while a handful may survive. The election fever has subsided except amongst a clutch of irreconcilables who won’t accept defeat.  But they forget that …

US intelligence damns BJP’s Hindutva

The portions relating to the regional security scenario in South Asia in the report titled “Worldwide Threat Assessment” by the US intelligence community presented to the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in Washington on January 29 make grim reading. The overall security scenario is bleak, especially in India-Pakistan relations. The past trend of regional …

Kerala makes history with large scale appointment of OBC, Dalit as temple priests

So, finally, Bharatiya Janata Party has identified the company it keeps in the Sabarimala issue and implicitly underscored its hidden agenda – Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Nair Service Society (NSS). The BJP president Amit Shah openly acknowledged this during a highly inflammatory public speech in Kannur, Kerala, yesterday. It is no big secret that …