https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/pm-modis-%ef%bb%bfdynamic-leadership-and-the-global-re-ordering/September 24, 2021, 7:05 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cc6c66ec_5019_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionIn the global re-ordering that is now in the offing and in the unmistakable shift eastward, the compass also points India-ward. As PM Modi embarks on his US tour, the first since the re-ordering began, these dimensions are emerging with certainty.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/suppressing-partition-horrors-and-manufacturing-convenient-realities/August 27, 2021, 6:07 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/75e5212e_4376_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionIn the discourse surrounding India’s Partition horrors, often manufactured and convenient truths have dominated, generating a miasma of falsehood and self-deception.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/a-forgotten-and-unpunished-genocide/August 13, 2021, 3:22 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/c59a8aa5_4054_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionThe Bengal famine, which exterminated over three million people, has been examined in the past, but Dr Mookerjee’s role in it has been minimised or distorted. His side of the story, as one involved in the Herculean task of providing succour to the...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/khela-hobe-of-retributive-violence/July 30, 2021, 7:34 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/7c1660d5_3252_P_1_mr-2.jpgOpinionMamata Banerjee’s slogan of ‘Khela Hobe’ has been manifested violently in West Bengal in the last two months; this is a model she hopes to replicate across India. It is a retribution-driven dream that ought to be resoundingly rejected. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/recalling-unsung-legacy-of-syama-prasad-mookerjee/June 23, 2021, 7:41 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/31ada574_3170_P_1_mr-1.jpgOpinionToday, a day after Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s 68th martyrdom anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a meeting with political parties from Jammu and Kashmir to chart out the future electoral map and trajectory for the region. It’s a fitti...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/lokkho-sonar-bangla-reviving-the-lost-glory-of-west-bengal/January 23, 2021, 8:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8eac4696_1415_P_5_mr-1.jpgOpinionWest Bengal’s cultural and intellectual heritage and potential for economic growth have suffered due to decades of directionless politics. What the state needs now is robust governance, rapid economic growth and a push to reinstate its former self...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/the-insidious-agenda-of-the-pseudo-liberal-brigade/October 14, 2020, 5:40 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201010109L.jpgOpinionThe selective outrage expressed by the pseudo-liberal factions in India has laid bare their inherent biases. The fact that their sponsors and agendas are being called out now bodes well for the emergence of a truly Indian liberalism.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/the-false-spectre-of-a-friendless-india/September 30, 2020, 4:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/PM-MODI-2-300x169.jpgOpinionFar from losing friends, as the Congress claims, we are witnessing a new narrative of engagement. India’s neighbourhood-first policy ensures that it maintains a long-term and reliable partnership with countries in the region.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/self-annihilation-of-political-opposition/August 28, 2020, 6:36 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/rahul-1.pngOpinionIndia’s political opposition continues to remain confused, bitter about electoral defeat and rejection, incapable of reinventing itself, and unable to articulate what it stands for except for a blind, personalised, often cheap opposition to PM Modi.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/why-kashmir-is-more-than-just-a-land-for-india/August 11, 2020, 6:07 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/kashmir.pngOpinionWhen PM Modi spoke of his vision of a ‘Naya Jammu-Kashmir’ last August, soon after the abrogation of Article 370, he was in a sense re-articulating and reiterating the vision of the region as a sacred space.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/mamata-losing-the-plot-in-west-bengal/July 28, 2020, 5:29 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/mamta.pngOpinionAs the state inches towards the Assembly elections, Mamata Banerjee and her politics seem to have become increasingly paranoid and intolerant.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/congress-idea-of-india-begins-ends-with-family/July 13, 2020, 5:23 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/congress-1.pngOpinionThe party’s ‘first family ‘is essentially driven by a dictatorial mindset and thus its invective-driven politics which repeatedly casts aspersions on the choice of the people if not voted to power.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/how-nehruvian-consensus-compromised-indias-security/June 29, 2020, 5:51 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/o1-300x169.pngOpinionPM Modi has broken the Nehruvian Consensus on how our borders must be defended. This has unnerved India’s adversaries both within and outside the country.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/amit-shah-sounds-bugle-of-change-in-didis-bengal/June 15, 2020, 5:16 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Amit-Shah-1-300x169.jpgOpinionThe Home Minister’s ‘Banglar Jana Samabesh’ comes at a time when people are increasingly being attracted by PM Modi’s vision and conviction of turning West Bengal into a lead state. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/pm-modis-%ef%bb%bfdynamic-leadership-and-the-global-re-ordering/September 24, 2021, 7:05 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cc6c66ec_5019_P_4_mr-1.jpgOpinionThe most inspiring dimension of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first year of his second term is the speed and determination with which he has sought to settle some of the most unsettled facts of postIndependence India’s political history and evolu...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/__trashed-13/May 18, 2020, 5:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/May-182020-11-300x169.jpgOpinionMamata Banerjee often indulges in shrill theatrics only to cover-up on her colossal failures as West Bengal’s Chief Minister and Health Minister.