Arun Shourie Articles
by Arun Shourie
Arun Shourie (born 2 November 1941) is an eminent Indian journalist, author and politician. He has worked as an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the Indian Express and The Times of India and a minister in the government of India (1998–2004). He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982. He has authored/co-authored numerous books and is better known for his insightful writings on a range of subjects and thoughts and razor sharp logic. We are reproducing his articles from http://arunshourie.voiceofdharma.com/articles.htm.
Chapters
- Why the Hon'able Court Must Hear Us
- Hideaway Communalism
- Not an Abberation, But the Theme
- Things to do about the Press
- "Arey Bhai, Masjid Hai Hi Kahaan...?"
- Ayodhya: Muslim Argument Examined
- Myths about the Swami - Part I
- Myths About the Swami - Part II (Quotable Quotes)
- Hazratbal Mosque Crisis: How and Why it Happened?
- Premises and their Inevitable Consequences
- The Wages of Calumny
- 'But We Have no Right?'
- Secular Hypocrisy, Double Standard, and Regressions
- "Muslims...were looking to Pakistan for help..."
- Spiritual Renewal the Hindu Way - I The Indian Way of Seeking The Almighty
- Spiritual Renewal the Hindu Way - II The Buddha's Garment
- Spiritual Renewal the Hindu Way - III Signs of Renewal
- The Hindutva Judgements: The Distance That Remains
- Toppling the BJP Government on the 31st
- No Point Saying, "But Those Days are Long Gone"
- With Friends Like These, Having Enemies is Better
- One Who has in fact Wrought a Revolution
- Fascism will be Inevitable if Aggression is Called Resurgence
- Fashion-Setters and Their Well-Honed Technology
- Contrivances Replace Contrivances With Contrivances With Contrivances
- Their Sacrifices: A Chapter from Tomorrow's Textbooks
- Curiosity? Myopia? Servility?
- Observers and Their Unalloyed Drivel
- The Pakistani Bomb is, and has been, a Joint Venture
- Third Demension to the N-threat We Face
- The Tantrums Which Will Follow Explosions
- Fabrications On The Way To The Funeral
- ICHR's The Eminent Entrepreneurs!
- Earplugs To Shut Out Their Loudspeakers!
- To Paradise - Via the Jehad in Kashmir!
- Devices to Further the Circular
- A Happy Result, And Something To Look Forward To
- The Litmus Test of Whether Your History is Secular
- After Selling Himself in the Flesh Market
- Cut, Paste and Preserve Their Calumny
- On Dealing With Contradictory Signals
- On Treasuring a Moment
- The Comfort of Conspiracies
- A State Unimagined in Law: A Wrong Without a Remedy
- Body-Counts Have Become Big, Compelling Business
- So Many Obvious Things To Do Way To Do Them
- Some Good Even From This Crisis
- Congress Culture
- What a Precedent to Cite!
- As Soldiers Put Their Lives on the Line
- Kargil: Who and What is Responsible?
- What Propels Them? What Blinds Them?
- Not Just an Islamic, But a Psychological State
- Every Disaster, a Photo-Opportunity
- The Jihadi Mentality: Its Recoil and Danger
- The Lunatic Mainstream Vs a Slender Fringe
- Two Questions Recent Crises Throw at us
- Annexation Through Technicalities
- To the Bitter End
- Pocket Edition
- The Realities of Pakistan
- An Extreme Case is not an Exception
- The Pope Dispels All Doubts!
- POTO: Interception, Confession, Confessions, Torture (Part I of II)
- POTO: Approve Swiftly, and then Toughen it (Part II of II)
- Combating Terrorism
- 'A State That's Patronising Terrorists Should Wake up to the Consequences; in any Case its Immediate Neighbours Must'
- The Judgement Vs the Interim Order
- Did the Court Ask, What is Mohd Aslam's Locus Standi?
- Political Will Hunting
- Where the Buck Really Stops
- The Manu of Our Times?
- The Futility of Dialogue with Babari Committee
- Calamities Come and Go, But Decision to Stay Remains
- "But how can we disobey the command of our Lord?"
- Objective Whitewash for Objective History (PART I of II) !
- Not Just Macaulay's Offspring
- The Media in Crises
- The "Roman Brahmin"
- To Undo the Scandal, Undo the Control
- Weak to the Strong, Strong to the Weak
- Vital Distinctions
- Who Killed Australian Missionary Graham Staines?
- Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons
- If You Let Facts Interfere You Lack Party Spirit
