May 2nd, 2009 
Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam As we enter the final stretches of the Poll marathon, results of which is still two weeks away, one is appalled by how little we are talking of the real issues being faced by the nation in this election. This became more evident when one went around the Western Uttar Pradesh belt, [...]
April 28th, 2009 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam Five years ago around this time when the elections to the 14th Lok Sabha was underway, and then ruling NDA was riding the India Shining bandwagon, Congress which had been out of power for the previous eight years, was at its lowest morale. Even its drum beaters in their war room at [...]
April 20th, 2009 Girish Nikam For a long time in Bihar, the Muslims who constitute 16.5 percent of the 9 crore population, have been lulled into smugness by the relatively peaceful communal atmosphere in the State. This has been largely due to the unabashed pro-Muslim policy adopted by RJD Chief Lalu Yadav in all these almost 20 years that he [...]
April 15th, 2009 Girish Nikam There has always been a joke about bumping into Malayalis in any part of the world, why even in Moon and Mars. That credit (or is it discredit?) should now legitimately go to the Biharis, or atleast they should share it with the Malayalis. Why they have now become such a ubiquitous presence across the [...]
April 14th, 2009 Girish Nikam Its indeed been a voyage of discovery, every time one travels in the hinterlands of Bihar, and the education continues. Much has been talked about criminals in politics and their nexus with politicians. One has to wander around Maharajganj and Siwan to understand this nexus. These are two places where criminals with records of murder [...]
March 13th, 2009 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam Five years back when Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh was hoisted on the nation by the Congress President Sonia Gandhi after rejecting the demand for herself to occupy the throne, he had made it clear that the mandate was for Sonia Gandhi, and not for me. For some this statement was an act [...]
February 28th, 2009 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam When the United Progressive Alliance was formed following the defeat of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in the 2004 general elections, many did not give the newly cobbled up alliance much time for survival. The BJP leadership in particular in fact gave it only six months and later kept revising the fall-date, [...]
February 12th, 2009 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam A couple of weeks back when The Hindu broke the controversy about the bickering in the Election Commission between the Chief Election Commissioner N.Gopalaswami and his colleague, Election Commissioner, Navin Chawla, all hell seemed to have broken loose, just on the eve of elections. The media and the polity as well as [...]
November 20th, 2008 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam It was touching to read the way in which the BJP’s Prime Minister-in-waiting L.K.Advani rushed to the defence of one of the accused in the Malegaon blasts, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur the other day. His reasoning that he had kept quiet all this time as Sadhus and Sadhvis and army officers were [...]
October 28th, 2008 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam Now, now, don’t tell me Hindus can also indulge in terrorism! How bizarre! How can that be possible? This vote bank politics is being taken just too far. You can’t brand nationalists as terrorists. Don’t push Hindus into a corner like this. It will be at your own peril. There is no [...]
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