Bøger af Amit Bagaria

Is India a 5000-year-old nation?How is MK Gandhi a "Mahatma"?Did Sardar Patel deserve the title "Father of the Nation" more than MK Gandhi?Why was Nehru called Chacha Nehru?How did the Kashmir problem start?How did Parsi-born Feroze Ghandy become a Gandhi?Did Indira Gandhi win the 1971 war with Pakistan? Why did India give up13,000 km2 of territory to Pakistan, when China and Pakistan had seized ourterritories in 1947-48, 1962 and 1965? Wasn't returning 90,000 PoWs enough?Why did Indira Gandhi declare an emergency in 1975?What were the 16 mysterious deaths in India apart from Lal Bahadur Shastri?What were the extramarital love affairs of Nehru and Indira?Did Congress win 10 Lok Sabha elections with a majority of votes?Are 'Coalgate' and 2G India's biggest scams?Is Hinduism a religion?Does Hinduism prevent eating eggs, fish, seafood, or meat?What is the Hindu Rashtra?Is our Rajya Sabha modelled on the British House of Lords?Why did we choose a parliamentary instead of presidential system of government?

अब 80 महीने से भी अधिक का समय बीत चुका है, जब भारतीय राजनीति की 'वयोवृद्ध पार्टी', भारतीय राष्ट्रीय कांग्रेस को 2014 के चुनावों में नरेंद्र मोदी के नेतृत्व वाली बीजेपी/एनडीए के हाथों करारी हार का सामना करना पड़ा था। पाँच साल बाद 2019 में मोदी ने अपने नेतृत्व में बीजेपी/एनडीए को उससे भी बड़ी जीत दिलाई, भले ही कांग्रेस को इस बार कुछ अधिक सीटें मिलीं। अगस्त 2019 में 'इंडिया टुडे' के सर्वे में 57.5 प्रतिशत लोगों ने कहा कि कांग्रेस अपने अंत की ओर बढ़ रही है, 71.4 प्रतिशत ने कहा कि भारतीय मतदाताओं ने निर्णायक रूप से वंशवादी राजनीति को खारिज कर दिया है, और मात्र 32.6 प्रतिशत ने कहा कि सिर्फ एक गांधी ही पार्टी को पुनर्जीवित कर सकता है। जनवरी 2020 में कराए गए ऐसे ही सर्वे में 68.2 प्रतिशत लोगों ने कहा कि कांग्रेस अपने सबसे बड़े नेतृत्व संकट से गुजर रही है। अगस्त 2020 में 55.3 प्रतिशत लोगों ने कहा कि कांग्रेस अपने अंत के करीब है। लेकिन अब तक भी 135 साल पुरानी पार्टी के पुनर्जीवित होने के संकेत नहीं दिखते। 7 अगस्त, 2020 को 23 वरिष्ठ नेताओं ने पार्टी के अध्यक्ष पद समेत विभिन्न संगठनों के चुनाव कराए जाने की माँग के साथ ही नेहरू-गांधी परिवार के खिलाफ विद्रोह कर दिया। इतने महीने बाद भी पार्टी में नेतृत्व के संकट को दूर करने की दिशा में कोई ठोस कदम उठता नहीं दिखता। 'बागियों' और 'परिवार के तथाकथित वफादारों' के बीच की दरार कांग्रेस पार्टी को लगातार डरा रही है।

The Gang of Six were clinching their fists under the 21-seater oval teak table in the PMO in New Delhi. How could their Prime Minister speak to them like that? How does the Constitution of India allow such people, with just 35 seats out of 543 in the Lok Sabha, to become the PM?The Indian PM's aircraft took off from Islamabad Airport at 7:45 am IST and was scheduled to land at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in New Delhi at 9:10 am IST. When the aircraft started deviating from its scheduled route, there was panic at the IGIA air traffic control tower. By 9:15 am IST, the aircraft was seen heading south, when it became out of range of the radars at IGIA. Had the PM's aircraft been hijacked? Was it headed to Sri Lanka or the Maldives?The defence minister, external affairs minister and the NSA had accompanied the PM to Islamabad. In their absence, the best men to contact the Indian Air Force Chief were the cabinet secretary or the defence secretary. Both men tried to get hold of him, but to no avail. He was not answering his office or mobile phone. They tried the Vice Chief and got no response either. What in hell was going on?By 9:45 am IST, Indian Army soldiers in battle gear began arriving in army trucks at North and South Block, and at various other ministry buildings spread across Lutyens' Delhi. Hundreds of soldiers also arrived at the residences of the union ministers in the 28.7 km2 Lutyens Bungalow Zone.At 9:45 pm Pakistan Time, about five hours after the Indian generals had finished the press conference in New Delhi and about two hours after millions had started demonstrating on roads across fifty-plus Indian cities, Prime Minister Irfan Khan chaired a meeting of Pakistan's National Security Council. A plan of action was framed.