Dear BJP,
RE: Your performance during the Kandahar Episode
Do you have anything better than this Kanchan Gupta article to explain your performance? If not, then here are some questions that arise from that article:
The article blames the media for creating the impression that the entire country wanted the terrorists to be released. The question is, were [...]
Last May I had written:
So, a weak Congress with allies will do quite well for some time. In a First Past the Post electoral system, the parties in the first and second place tend to look stronger than they are, because like Vali in the Ramayana, they will gain strength from their opponents.
This analogy is unfortunately inaccurate. Vali [...]
I have pointed out earlier that adopting democracy is like nuclear disarmament – there are serious costs to being the first one to do it. This does not mean that it is impossible. One possible approach is to have dictatorship at the central level, but democracy at the local level. This is best done when [...]
L K Advani’s memoir reminds me of the Yes Minister and the Yes Prime Minister books. In particular, it reminds me of the preface to the latter, which starts something like:
Hacker’s unexpected ascension to the Premiership, which happens towards the end of the first chapter of his volume, created almost as many problems for historians [...]
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