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Balbir Punj
Balbir Punj is a Rajya Sabha MP and a political commentator.
Mixed bag for both
A glance at the recent Assembly poll results will invariably lead to a fallacious conclusion that the Congress is the sole winner. But truth be told, while it won, the BJP didn't lose either A quick glance at the recent Assembly poll results will invariably lead to a fallacious conclusion that...
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No love, only jihad
03 December 2018 | Balbir Punj -
Shadow of terror looms large
19 November 2018 | Balbir Punj -
The real Sir Syed: A British agent
22 October 2018 | Balbir Punj -
Selective amnesia on the killing of animals
24 September 2018 | Balbir Punj -
Violence in Kashmir: A lasting tragedy
10 September 2018 | Balbir Punj -
Pakistan polls, Chinese encirclement and India
02 July 2018 | Balbir Punj -
Can India, Pakistan learn from Trump-Kim summit?
18 June 2018 | Balbir Punj
Engaging China to push for a win-win outcome
We will have to wait and watch for the results of the Wuhan Summit but Prime Minister Modi has certainly set the agenda Even his worst critics will give Prime Minister Narendra Modi at least two cheers for his recent diplomatic achievement in lifting the India-China relationship above the common bitterness...
In political mess, DMK invokes secession ideas
For the DMK, call for secession from the Indian Union is the mantra for its political revival. But the idea of Dravida Nadu is long past the glory it enjoyed under Ramaswamy Naicker From deciding to put up a joint front before the Finance Commission against successive reduction in their share...
Pakistan's cruel ploy on Hafiz Saeed
We must face the hard fact that our western neighbour, equipped with nuclear weapons, is only waiting to unload them on our territory in fulfilment of its self-imposed historic role of Islamising India Only the uninitiated and gulible would have been shocked following a Pakistan Court order last Thursday, directing the...
Running with hares and hunting with hounds
The political resolution adopted by the Congress at the plenary session displayed its eagerness to grab power but those on the ground are not so sure it can Buoyed by a few key by-poll successes in the Hindi heartland of the country, Congressmen and women, who thronged the Indira Gandhi Indoor...
Of falling statues and vanishing ideologies
The people in the North-East have responded to the BJP’s call, on which it will have to deliver, that it is development that is first and foremost It would do no one any good if the avalanche of change that has swept through the North-east of the country is seen as...
Gulf diplomacy: Signs of a changing world
Modi’s upholding of the two-nation solution in Palestine was timely not only to rebalance India's diplomacy in the most turbulent region of the world but also to silence his critics back home While the national media is naturally focused on banking scams adding to thousands of crores, a major development with...
Another victim in a country of 'no love'
Ankit’s brutal murder in Delhi has raised some pertinent questions surrounding inter-faith marriages and the right to conversion which Islamic theologians must answer The recent brutal murder of young photographer Ankit Saxena in West Delhi’s Khyala area by the family of his Muslim girlfriend Shehzadi has thrown the ongoing ‘secular’ narrative...
