Kindle Notes & Highlights
The BJP listed five points as its main agenda: nationalism and national integration; commitment to democracy; Gandhian Socialism; value-based politics; and genuine secularism.
The term Gandhian Socialism was a deviation from the concept of Integral Humanism that had been propounded by Deendayal Upadhyay, the Jana Sangh ideologue.
he never liked anyone to disagree but only listen to his commands. Even then he always tried to remove his opponents.’
The Demolition: India at the Crossroads
Called the Shri Ram Janaki Rath Yatra, it began rolling from Sitamarhi in Bihar, popularly believed to be the birthplace of Sita, the wife of Lord Ram.
Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat
In order to have faith in our own path, we don’t need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.
Rajiv Gandhi government opted for, as mentioned earlier, a policy of “competitive” communalism: on the one hand it initiated legislative measures to dilute the apex court’s Shah Bano judgement and on the other it considered making concessions to the VHP by opening the Ayodhya shrine.
Since independence there had been a political practise among secular parties and groups to be more strident in criticizing majority fundamentalism when compared to minority fundamentalism.
Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, Israel’s Ariel Sharon and of course, the Fuehrer himself.
Ramachandra Guha in his book, Patriots and Partisans,1 there emerged a ‘certain kind of Indian who gets up before dawn, has a glass of cow’s milk, prays to the sun god, and begins scanning cyberspace for that day’s secular heresies.’
Shayamji Krishna Varma: The Unknown Patriot.
The collapse of the trade union movement in Gujarat around the time when it developed a stranglehold in West Bengal further enabled industry to become more vigorous in Gujarat.
No other State Government works as fast as the one in Gujarat when it comes to implementation.
poet. Gujarat is the first state which has taken a policy decision to allow change of streams. If you have passed class twelve with commerce as a subject– that does not mean that all other avenues have closed for you.
there. The era of Krishna in Dwarka will be recreated.
Mark Twain once remarked that the ‘secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.’
Modi the pace of his bandwagon.
the biggest undoing of Modi will possibly stem not from his political orientation but from his overarching personal trait: an inability to look at a discord from any viewpoint except his own.
