SS Dhawan

Lie down on the couch, the nation will hear you out.

This is the same party that has, over the years, put us to sleep with its mindless drone about minority appeasement.

Even a hare-brained swamy would have known instinctively what was coming Ram Rahim's way.

These very saffron forces are trying to dwarf PM's development agenda.

A satire in an hour of tragedy.

The BJP does not tire of bragging that it is a party with a difference but in reality it is stuck in the same rut.

Rather than taking inspiration from myriad sources to build a mosaic of pan-India identity, we are caught in a maze of saffron.

The BJP won't let the former president of India rest in peace.

Or are we ready for a game of strategic patience with the Chinese? A protracted standoff that could drag on for months, if not years.

With the PM's own magic on the wane, the BJP cannot depend on only him to deliver the goodies.

Surely, your job is not to provide just comic relief to a nation.

Pay GST, listen to jumlas, lynch a person every now and then to relieve our monotony, mention the cow in morning prayers, and let the Army do it's job.

Indira Gandhi had managed to secure Sikkim's 'merger' as China watched from the sidelines.

Nor does he mind that the government is losing its poise and sense of equilibrium.

As a practising politician he is expected to understand that no nation can live on hubris alone; nor can subsist on a staple diet of rhetoric, bluster and half-truths.

Often, by time the PM gets his voice back, the cycle of violence has spiralled out of control and innocents have been maimed.

This is a piece of fiction but I deserve no mercy. We are all guilty by association.

We have allowed the political blather and grandstanding to become a substitute for actual governance.

While the PM lost a chance to liberate himself from the optics of Hindutva, having a Dalit head of State will also not change the community’s dystopian reality.

Thanks to jingoists, patriotism hangs by a slender thread these days.

Who is running this country? What happened to our mandate?

The recent strike is IS's desperate bid to widen the ambit of the sectarian battle.

In geopolitics, the golden rule is - tip-toe, if you feel the urge to run.

The incorrigible president could not resist taking potshots and pointing out that India and China have worse emission records.

A pea-brained, cock-eyed, 'legally' possible reality of India.

It is the coming of age of the silent majority.

It takes more than a 56-inch chest to take the peace process forward; and it takes less courage to carry out a surgical strike.

Some political ingenuity can surely help.

So, this is the great Modi vision - one nation, one language, one anthem, one diet, one civil law and, of course, one animal!

He can abandon his ideological baggage and go down in history as the man who had an instinctive feel for the pulse of the nation.