Veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi was once a professor of physics, so no one can criticise him for committing some "historical" blunders in his party's election manifesto. The manifesto says that India's freedom movement was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhas Chandra Bose, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Aurobindo Ghosh. But it does not make any mention of Jawaharlal Nehru, B.R. Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh or Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. At another place the manifesto mentions Spanish scholar Al Andalusi as having said that the first nation to have cultivated science was India. But the manifesto does not mention that Al Andalusi was an Islamic scholar and a qazi in Toledo. As Union Mi...

The Congress is taking a critical re-look at its advertisement campaign, which many party insiders consider a big flop. Suddenly many questions are being raised, the first being the choice of the ad agency, Dentsu-Taproot. The founder of Taproot, Santosh Pandhi, had publicly praised Narendra Modi for his clarity of thought at an International Advertising Association function. Pandhi had gone on to state that India would be better off if it had more people like Modi. Not quite the tagline Congress leaders were looking for! But yet the party chose Taproot over JWT as its agency of choice, even though the JWT had handled the Congress' 2009 campaign. Fingers are being pointed at Jairam Ramesh, o...