Rajesh Singh

Rajesh Singh  The Congress's strategist for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, Prashant Kishor, has stumbled upon a solution to revive the party's fortunes in a State over which the party had lorded for nearly four decades, and…
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Rajesh Singh  Mark Twain had observed that a patriot is a person "who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about". The same can be said of people who rant about freedom of expression and the value of dissent by…
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Rajesh Singh There should not be any doubt that the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2015, reflected the sense of both Parliament and the country. As usual, it took Parliament a big public outcry (this…
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    Rajesh Singh  Part of the reason why the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam did not get eliminated when it had assumed dangerous proportions in the eighties lies at India's door. Ironically, two very dissimilar actions New Delhi took on…
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Rajesh Singh The outrage in and outside Parliament over reports of 'forced' conversion of  Muslims to Hinduism in Agra (Sangh Parivar activists called it "home-coming", as they claimed the converted had only returned to their original…
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Rajesh Singh Like Banquo's ghost in Macbeth, the blunders of Jawaharlal Nehru over Jammu and Kashmir continue to return to haunt Nehruvians and others. In the midst of the much-hyped birth anniversary celebrations of the country's first…
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Rajesh Singh It is a matter of eternal wonderment whether Pakistan genuinely wants friendly relations with India. The speculation gets more intense when Pakistan provokes New Delhi through hostile acts such as ceasefire violations along…
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Rajesh Singh Certain people have been finding it difficult to digest the Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in Maharashtra and Haryana. They must have wished that with the blink of an eye the nightmare would vanish. Since this is not…
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Rajesh Singh Few people could match Henry Kissinger in his visceral dislike, even hatred, for India, in the seventies. Fewer still would be less deserving of the Nobel Peace prize which he got in 1973, barely two years after he, along with…
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Rajesh Singh A secular anchor of a secular television news channel asked actor Naseeruddin Shah in the course of an interview before a studio audience if he, as a Muslim, ever felt discriminated against in India. The anchor helpfully drew…
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