Tag: indian politics

• Shah Rukh Khan: Don’t Apologize to Shiv Sena

  Update (04-Jan): Speaking in London where he is promoting his movie My Name is Khan, Shah Rukh Khan today said: “I don’t know what the issue is all about…I don’t know what I am supposed to retract. Am I supposed to retract the fact I’m an Indian but I don’t want anyone to come to […]

  February 3, 2010

• India: Ten Years After

  It was a sobering moment when I recently saw a plaque erected beside a wall at Delhi’s another well-known market in Sarojini Nagar. “Condolence to those who died in the bomb blast on 29 Sept 2005,” said the plaque. It listed the names/identities of 47 people. A total of 50 people died on that day. […]

  January 3, 2010

• Inclusive Hindutva: BJP in India

  The Bharatiya Janata Party of India has realized that its hard-line brand of Hindutva politics doesn’t work anymore. And that’s a good news thanks to its defeat in the parliamentary polls By Dinesh Wagle as published in today’s Kathmandu Post “There’s a fire raging in BJP,” said a headline in India the previous week. After […]

  June 27, 2009