The government borrows shine from the soldier
The decision to celebrate Surgical Strike Divas could well set off the beginnings of the militarization of the polity
here came a moment in my recent interaction with the chief of the army staff, Bipin Rawat, whose implications are unsettling enough to require remark. I ventured to get his sense of the situation in the Kashmir Valley, and he stopped me short and said he would like to wait a while before he opened […]
The master of spin
Ripples of the Modi marketing tide have already begun to roll
Those who noticed will already know that Graeme Smith, the former South Africa cricket captain, has flagged off the Narendra Modi campaign for 2019. For those that did not, here is how it happened. May 27, the first day of the last year of Modi’s term. A pulsating corner of the Wankhede arena, where the […]
