Under permanent curfew in Kashmir, with no means of communication, no avenue to express protest and no voice in decision-making, we have made it easy for our enemies to say that we are an occupying power.

Decisiveness is a condition that is produced primarily by individuals who have great certitude. This means those people operate primarily on the basis of passions, belief and faith rather than the intellect. They feel strongly about something at a deep level and find it difficult to see the other point of view.

The drip-drip-drip of losses inside, much higher in volume, continues to bleed us without any effort to bandage or to examine the wound.

Those who chafed at the idea of special status are satisfied that the only Muslim majority state of India is now a union territory, ruled directly by Delhi.

After the violence in Punjab, Congress legislated the Terrorism and Anti-Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, known as TADA. The law existed for almost a decade, and thousands of people -- most of them Muslims and Sikhs -- were arrested and jailed under it.

Four missions to Mars are being planned next year by various agencies. Why so many together? The reason is that Mars and Earth come closest to each other once every 26 months and 2020 is when this happens next.

On July 22, India will send its first spacecraft to the moon and will become only the fourth nation to be able to reach the moon after America, Russia and China.

Reports quoting party sources say that senior party figures and Congress CMs have asked colleagues to give the names they propose for the post of Congress president in closed envelopes.

The number two player is South Korea’s Samsung and at number three, four and five are once again Chinese companies: Vivo, Oppo and Realme respectively. There is no Indian firm with any meaningful product in India’s market.

Donald Trump has been aching for a war with Iran, as are some of the more deranged members of his administration such as John Bolton, the National Security Adviser.

The restaurants look the same as they did two or three decades ago and though the traffic has increased, there is very little other visual sign of change or economic progress.

Our leader has worn a suit with his name written on it in gold, and this has not offended most people.We must note that it is in this environment that a billionaire has chosen to do what nobody has done before him and done it with modesty and dignity.

Our defeats and losses at work are mostly personal and if others know it is because we told them. For the opposition leaders, it is in the most public sphere.

Nobody understands the deep causes of defeat and victory better than the defeated. The defeated have been to all the battlefields. They have looked into the eyes of their soldiers and those of the opponents’.

No government policy really affects me or perhaps even touches me. My life was no different during the ten years when Manmohan Singh was prime minister than the five years when Modi was or Vajpayee was.

As the British were leaving, nobody asked Indians to vote on whether we wanted a Hindu Rashtra or whether we should include religious aspects in our constitution.

The BJP won a staggering 42% of the vote in Uttar Pradesh in 2014. It held on to this three years later, taking 41% in 2017’s Assembly election. Narendra Modi appears to be upending traditional political calculations in the state

Because the BJP is being led by a leadership which is very popular in the middle class, we can expect that the membership and the number of volunteers will continue to expand.

Politicians, particularly those who regularly address large gatherings, are better aware than the rest of us about what are the issues concerning people.

Union Minister Smriti Irani has been mocked for her educational qualifications by the Congress. But is strong academic credentials a requisite for a successful career in politics