( This article would appear in the coming issue of ‘Think India Quarterly’) (Photo Courtesy : jansatta) ..Kovind acknowledged that “the key to India’s success is its diversity” and “our diversity is the core that makes us so unique” and ended his speech with a call to build an egalitarian society as “envisioned by … Continue reading Deendayal Upadhyaya : BJP’s ‘Gandhi’ !
Tomorrow, the capital will see the culmination of the year-long birth centenary celebrations of Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Pandit Deendayal Upadhayay ‘Nirastapadapeshe Erandopi Drumayate !’ – Sanskrit Proverb (In a treeless country even castor counts for a big tree) ( Quoted in EPW ”An Occasion for the RSS”, GPD) Come September 25 and the capital would see … Continue reading BJP, In Search Of An Icon: Is Deendayal Upadhyay Party’s Mahatma Gandhi?
(Photo courtesy : livehindustan.com, From left to right – Golwalkar, Deendayal Upadhyay and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, . Photo taken in Mathura during Goraksha/Cow Protection movement, 1965) “DEENDAYAL UPADHYAYA is to the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] what Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was to Congress” opined R.
