NavDharmyug

Why do we fall in love? I would posit that we do not fall in love because the object of our love is captivating, Charming and exceptionally brilliant. We fall in love because we are ready to fall in love. The theory is quite unromantic but I have a feeling that it is quiet true. It is represented in another as a drier postulate, the age-old saying- Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come.  The protagonist is no longer important. The actors of the play become incidental once the time is ripe, the idea they represent becomes critical. That is what has happened to Narendra Modi in the North-East.  Narendra Modi is not a person any longer. Narendra Modi is now a thought, an idea and an ideology. Every election of Narendra Modi is now an existential struggle for civilizational continuity of India. With his foolhardy approach to the national polity, where Rahul Ghandy keeps shifting from Topidhari to Janeudhari to Chogadhari , Congress has demonstrated a thor...

Image Courtesy: GettyImages “ Have you noticed how continually in history democracy becomes despotism? People call it the decay of democracy. It is simply its fulfillment. ” – Wrote  GK Chesterton  in his acclaimed political satire, “ The Napoleon of Notting Hill” . This is a truth of such great wisdom told in such a simplistic manner.  It doesn’t matter if he wrote it in 1905 (about a world of 1984). Democracy is a great idea but its strength lies in the constant change. You stop the churn and staleness of status quo seeps in, the water gets muddier, the stench rises and toads will croak. A monarchy derives its power from status quo, the lack of change, the permanence of structure. Democracy on the other hand, thrives on chaos, change and transient nature of the political structure. Democracy will throw surprises. It will bring people who are watching from the margins, will name the nameless, and raise them to a point where they start resembling aristocratic mo...

I have long cherished and celiberated my politically neutral position as a proclaimed mugwump. However, the way political world around me moved with a speed so unusual in Indian world of homeopathic revolutions, only way to maintain sanity in a rare fast-changing scenario which moved from Congress to AAP to BJP was to get on the bus whisking past. So I did and vote this time, not hiding behind missing entry of voting list or the NOTA, which is nothing but a self-satisfying absurdity, since with or without NOTA, the one with highest votes in rest of it will win the seat anyways. The world around me was seething with anger, and I perhaps, augmented that fury with mine, even more feral then that of the world around. A lot many Pundits term this election as a referendum on corruption. That reading isn't entirely correct. Many things happened in last few years. We Indians, to a great degree have, over the centuries reconciled ourselves with the idea of divine rule, however ...