Ashish Shukla's Blog, page 30

November 15, 2016

Next one week of demonetization drive

Demonetization, Modi government, opposition, Barkha Dutt, BJP, ATMs, Kashmir

To-queue-or-not-to-queue

The entire thrust of opposition, in cahoots with propaganda siren of mainstream media in full blast, is about the inconvenience of the poor man.



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Published on November 15, 2016 22:50

November 8, 2016

“Trump will not be allowed to win”: Assange

John Pilger, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Saudi Arabia, Libya, US Elections, Ecuador Embassy in London, FBI, CIA, David Petraeus, Clinton Emails, John Podesta, McCarthy hysteria, Jihadism, Levant, ISIL, Clinton Foundation, Sidney Blumenthal, Syria

Trump is an outsider

This interview of Julian Assange by celebrated writer and author John Pilger  was filmed in the Embassy of Ecuador in London - where Julian Assange is a political refugee -  and broadcast on la



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Published on November 08, 2016 01:07

November 6, 2016

Left-Liberals control media: Goswami

Arnab Goswami, CNN, BBC, Times Now, TV news, India Ideas Conclave 2016, Lutyens Media, Left-Liberals

Goswami: Biggest threat to Lutyens Media

India’s most-watched television anchor, Arnab Goswami has dropped a broad hint on his next move after his decision to leave Times Now.



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Published on November 06, 2016 09:30

November 4, 2016

NDTV and a prophetic Ravish Kumar

Ravish Kumar, NDTV, JNU, Kanhaiya, AAP, Pathankot attack, Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Emergency, Modi government, Indian National Congress, Indira Gandhi, Nira Radia tapes, Manmohan Singh, Naveen Jindal

NDTV and its blank screen for a day

“This blank screen is the real face of television today.”



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Published on November 04, 2016 05:00

November 3, 2016

Rahul-Kejri Act: What your media didn’t report!

Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, Twitterati, Ram Kishan Grewal, Dentist Narang, OROP, army jawans, Randeep Surjewala, Indira Gandhi

Rahul-Kejri: The beaming condolence

If you haven’t been on social media bandwagon by now, it’s time you did.



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Published on November 03, 2016 00:41

October 25, 2016

BRICS and the devious Indian media

BRICS, Goa, Jim O’Neill, Wall Street Journal, Next II, G7, UN Security Council, Christophe Jaffrelot, Indian Express, Global Times

BRICS and Indian media's attempt to run it down

By M.K. Bhadrakumar



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Published on October 25, 2016 19:45

October 22, 2016

Tipu Sultan & his cruelty towards Hindus

British, Marathas, Anglo-Maratha War, East India Company, Tipu Sultan, Hyder Ali, Marathas, Nizam of Hyderabad, Travancore, Kodavas of Coorg, Wodeyar dynasty, Kodagu, Mir Hussein Kirmani, Marthanda Varma, Lannoy, Muzeris, Kochi, Nair troops, Srirangapatna, Napoleon, Ottoman, Madras Gazette, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Waterlook, Bangalore-Mysore highway

Tipu Sultan and his death memorial

(The below excerpts are gratefully taken from Sanjeev Sanyal’s masterpiece “Ocean of Churn” which is most earnestly recom



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Published on October 22, 2016 22:14

October 14, 2016

Facts on J & K that never reached you

Jammu and Kashmir, Left Historians, Indian Union, Hari Singh, Letter of Accession, Lord Mountbatten, Ladakh, Gilgit, Sheikh Abdullah, Baltistan, Mirpur, Muzaffarabad, National Conference, Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah, Gujjar, Shia, Ladakh, Government of India Act 1947

Maharaja Hari Singh, Nehru and Sheikh Abdullah

History, in India, is a strange subject and historians even stranger. The subject is reviled by students who perceive it to be dull and boring.



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Published on October 14, 2016 01:36

October 12, 2016

Why Modi can’t say even “Jai Shri Ram”

Ram, Narendra Modi, Vijayadashmi, Jai Shri Ram, Communal, Secularism

Why Modi can't even say "Jai Shri Ram"

How should have Modi greeted a mass greetings on Vijayadashmi other than “Jai Shri Ram”?  Should he have said “Naara-e-Takbeer”?




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Published on October 12, 2016 04:39

October 9, 2016

Durga Puja : Violent attacks on core Hindu belief

Shakti, durga puja, Hindu, King of Mysore, Chamundeshwari Devi, Goddess Gauri, Mahamaya, Chinnamastika, Savitri, Varahi, Lalita, Sarvamangala, Kalika, Kamakhya, Jayanti, Bodos, Gorkhas, Kali, Durga, Sisodias, Mewar, Rana Pratap, Sri Aurobindo, Guru Govind Singh, Chandi, Aurangzeb, Veer Savarkar, Subhas Chandra Bose, Abrahamic religions, Islam, British, Akbar, Shivaji, Tulja Bhavani, Chandi Di Var, Chandikaamba, Jayastute, RAB Bangladesh

Durga Puja: The violent attacks we barely know

There are violent incidents against religious Hindus during the Durga Puja in the Indian sub-continent and there is a history behind it.




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Published on October 09, 2016 20:25