Kanchan Gupta
At a brainstorming session Pramod Mahajan came up with the idea of a nationwide grand yatra, Narendra Modi concurred and that was the beginning of the Ram Rath Yatra, catapulting the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute on the national scene with LK Advani emerging as the face of Hindu aspirations
It’s a tragedy of our times that it took the highest court of India to bring peace between India’s present and its cultural past
The leader India indulged with so much affection and admiration departs
LK Advani was the original apostle of hardcore Hindutva and the man who mobilised India for the sake of Rama
This eyewitness account is a first step towards filling the information gap of the 1987 Hashimpura massacre
Astute manipulation of the caste matrix and a savvy campaign led the Grand Alliance of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad to an epochal victory. The BJP underestimated the power of its opponent and fell victim to its own contradictions