I write to you after my appearance on BBC Newsnight (www.tinyurl.com/alpeshnewsnight)  where I was, in the words of the programme’s presenter, ‘defending PM Modi from allegations of sectarianism’. And yes I was – reminding the viewers that the...

Apparently a Hindu Nationalist in India managed to fool millions of Muslims to vote for him and therefore for their own annihilation, and he is, as we speak, building concentration camps in India because he's apparently a Hindu extremist

An American politician once said all politics is local. I think today, that’s wrong. Having spent my time involved in the local and mayoral elections, I think it is more global than ever. 

The old joke goes, that we have so many Indians in Britain because when the British were leaving India in 1947, a whole bunch of Indians at India Gate in Mumbai, shouted at the last British ship, “Hey, where do you think you’re going? We are...



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