8 Articles by
Vijaya Dar
Born in Kashmir. Indic by culture. Occasional writer, avid reader. Love serious cinema, but not TV. Eternal student.
Opinions
Lockdown musings: The Bloomsbury debacle, the legacy of the Congress party and Narendra Modi’s vision of Aatmanirbhar Bharat
We are still far away from safety, and it is not sure when the lockdown and other restrictions would be lifted. Many of the businesses may never reopen.
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Lifting the lockdown and revival of the economy: An open letter to PM Modi
Lockdown will result in the number of cases looking to be under control, but its repeal will inevitably result in a spike.
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The mythical ‘dayan’ of Kishtwar and the eating away of the Indian state
Kashmir has seen many pogroms against the Hindus in the past, but these were mostly inspired by bigoted rulers
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Narendra Modi, media and the myth of BJP’s ‘hate politics’: Sordid saga of the ‘elite’ who miss Congress’ gravy train deceiving the masses
On the 1st of April, this year about 200 Lutyens’ celebrity writers published an open letter appealing to the people of India to “vote out hate politics, in other words, vote out PM Modi
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BBC’s undisguised anti-India bias: From the Leslee Udwin documentary on Nirbhaya to Top Gear and more
The BBC has had numerous run-in with the government and the people in India
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Narendra Modi and BJP’s arc of political realism
Modi will not sacrifice morality at the altar of political realism, compromising the future of the nation for short-term gains
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Why Rahul Gandhi would be an even greater disaster than Manmohan Singh as PM
“An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”
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4th of July and the 11th of September – Two days that bring both hope and despair
India has forgotten Swami Vivekananda and we need him now more than ever
