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Dr S. L Bhyrappa Talks to CRI
In the inaugural edition of Punctuations (our new Podcast series) , CRI’s Sandeep Balakrishna and Jaideep Prabhu talk to a legendary colossus of Kannada Literature Dr S.L Bhyrappa on a host of areas including history, linguistics and literature Recommended Reading – A tribute to Dr. S.L Bhyrappa by our editor...
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Vishwaroopam
In popular narrative, ‘Rajni versus Kamal’ battle represented a long running fault line in Tamil filmdom that supposedly pits dichotomous category of filmgoers – ‘classes’ and ‘masses’- against each other. ‘Classes’ treat Rajni movies condescendingly. Rajni’s ridiculous comic scenes and ludicrous punch lines are largely seen as insult to their...
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Sangh’s Narendra Modi Problem
Given the intentional inscrutability and deliberate obfuscation that the Sangh tends to practice in its communication, it will never go on record admitting that it has a Narendra Modi problem. And this problem is quite serious given that it is bound to have an impact on its ideological trajectory and...
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Is Gujarat Irreversibly Rightist?
Socio-economic milieu of Gujarat has provided a fertile ground for the steady onward march of rightist ideology. A multitude of factors explain this. Gujarat has a preponderance of a prosperous peasantry class that has displayed exemplary entrepreneurial skills. Facilitated by their control of political economy, this class invested its surplus...
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Assam: Competitive Religiosity and Media Narrative
What essentially started as yet another episodic violence between largely Hindu Bodo tribes and predominantly Bangla Muslim peasantry in couple of districts of Assam (part of a long standing conflict rooted in complex socio-economic milieu) is now threatening to metamorphose in to a pan Indian strife reviving festering communal faultlines....
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Saffron Meltdown in Southern Bastion- Part 1
It was day of counting of the 2008 Karnataka assembly election. BJP, often described pejoratively as a party of cowbelt nationalists, was breaching a seemingly insurmountable Vindhyas barrier and ascending to power by securing Karnataka as its citadel. BJP always hoped that Karnataka would serve as party’s electoral gateway to...
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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2012 – Live Results (in collabaration with Offstumped)
A live event produced by @CenterOfRight via CoveritLive with a power panel from Center Right India – CRI and other leading lights from Twitter to go over the live results of the assembly elections held in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur. Assembly Elections Results – 2012
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Kapil Sibal and Art of Vacuousness and Vaporware
If ubiquitousness in TV Studios, pompous pronouncements and mendaciloquence are measurements of ministerial success, Kapil Sibal certainly stands head and shoulders above his fellow cabinet colleagues. Even the contemptible condescension of Chidambaram, increasingly chastened with the possibility of 2G venality consuming him, pales in comparison before the clowning glory of...
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Part 1- A survey on Ideologies & political leanings of English Language Newspapers
Wikipedia defines Media bias as “bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of which events and stories are reported and how they are covered. The term “media bias” implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening the standards of journalism, rather than the perspective of an...
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Imagining Nilekani’s politics
I have been meticulously following the vibrant intellectual cottage industry that has developed around expert commenting on India’s anti-corruption eruptions and in my assessment political scientist Vinay Sitapathi’s brilliantly done structural analysis of Anna Hazare movement clearly stands out. Although those in the vanguard of the movement spawn the entire ideological spectrum...
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Book Review- Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Fergusson
We are increasingly witnessing the rise of pop historians. Take a cursory glance at a random list of ‘most influential global thinkers’ prepared by journals selling strategic punditry and other profound pontifications to the transnational elite and their domestic sepoys. Two or three among this variety of historians will surely feature...
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Principles of Swantantra Party
(CRI will be a running a series of post to understand and deconstruct the rise and fall of Swantantra Party) Following are principles of Swantatra party articulated in 1959 during a meeting held under the chairmanship of Shri Rajagopalachari ( 1)We are of opinion that social justice and welfare can be reached...
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Can Sadhvi and Baba revive BJP in UP?
Sadhvi Uma Bharati returns to BJP and more importantly to lead the party’s campaign in Uttar Pradesh. This should be a welcome development though few perspicacious BJP watchers have expressed huge skepticism whether this will provide the desperately needed political traction for party in UP. As things stood last week,...
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Sunday Column- Evaluating the Rajiv Gandhi Era
Yesterday we witnessed yet another annual edition of tax payer funded, multi million blitzkrieg orchestrated by the well oiled and deep pocketed Congress PR machinery. It sought to obliterate memories of Rajiv Gandhi’s catastrophic tenure and reinforce a make-believe, patently false image of Rajiv as India’s greatest modernizer and reformer. Pages and...