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At the root of many controversies related to the Central Board of Film Certification are the guidelines formulated by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry

Economic Times, February 26, 2015
Is RSS HQ becoming Narendra Modi’s 10 Janpath?
by Ajoy Bose
Are we witnessing an uncanny replay of the power struggle between former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his party boss Sonia Gandhi that ultimately destroyed the authority and credibility of the UPA? The continuing tussle between the present Premier Narendra Modi and his ideological mentor RSS raises disturbing parallels of a similar conflict of interests within the ruling establishment. (…)

Hindu assertion, like other forms of contemporary political chauvinism, is deeply connected with structural transformation and new modes of social aspiration. It reflects not only a changing alignment of upwardly mobile and dominant classes. It also points to a reaction against the erstwhile paradigm of postcolonial development, a paradigm that buckled under the pressures it was subject to.

An odd silence has surrounded the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in the last few months — as if food insecurity were a thing of the past. It may be recalled that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), far from opposing the Act, vociferously demanded a more comprehensive law when the NFSA was being discussed in Parliament in 2013.

When exactly did we lose basant and what precisely do we want revived?