The BJP's decision in both Bihar and Maharashtra, however, would have caused immense heartburn within the local units.

China was there to help make it all happen and then Sri Lankan leader Mahinda Rajapaksa was glad to accept.

Today, many young Indians see Kashmir only through the lens of bloodshed and violence.

That obviously does not prevent him, alongside so many other prominent anti-Semites, from perceiving Israel as a shining ideological exemplar.