Anurag Anil

“Incidentally, Modi also attracted immense interest from overseas groups led by industrialists as big as French-Iranian billionaire Pierre Morad Omidyar, who founded eBay. He is rumoured to have funded Modi’s elections. Jayant Sinha, a former Omidyar Network partner, is now a junior minister in the Modi government.”
― Ullekh NP, War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology behind Narendra Modi's 2014 Win

“It was eventually remembered by Kashmiris as the moment when various militant factions came together against the state – unity of an unintended kind.”
― Ullekh NP, War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology behind Narendra Modi's 2014 Win

“The “foreign hand” was Avaaz.org, an organisation that promotes pro-democracy movements through the Internet, social media, phones and sometimes with the help of citizen journalists. Avaaz was co-founded in 2007 by Res Publica, a global civic advocacy group, and Moveon.org, an online community for Internet advocacy in the US. The founding team had social entrepreneurs from six countries, including president and executive director Ricken Patel, Tom Perriello, Tom Pravda, Eli Pariser, Andrea Woodhouse, Jeremy Heimans, and David Madden. By 2011, Avaaz had run a total of 750 pro-democracy campaigns worldwide. Widely regarded as the largest global political web movement in history, Avaaz’s website is blocked in China and Iran.”
― Ullekh NP, War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology behind Narendra Modi's 2014 Win

“In June 1975, it was the venue for Jayaprakash Narayan’s one lakh-strong rally that rattled then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who shortly imposed Emergency rule.”
― Ullekh NP, War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology behind Narendra Modi's 2014 Win