MCD By-Poll results: Jitters for AAP, thumbs up for Congress, BJP remains...
The results of the municipal by-polls in Delhi have thrown the game wide open between the major political parties –Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and BJP while giving the Congress a foothold into the city that...
View ArticleRajan Ragas: Is Swamy’s letter a trial Balloon?
Gadflies add to the delights of democracy. Subramanian Swamy, Ram Jethmalani, Arun Shourie and Digvijaya Singh – the league of combative gentlemen, though taken less seriously than many of their peers...
View ArticleCrime in Bihar: Government passive against politician-crime nexus
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s sushaasan or good governance is under fire after the murder of senior journalist Rajdeo Ranjan in Siwan district, the opposition has upped the ante with cries of...
View ArticleLDF secures massive gains in Kerala as BJP makes strong inroads into UDF vote...
The Left Democratic Front (LDF) is all set to form the next government in Kerala after pulling off a stunning victory over the Congress led United Democratic Front (UDF). In a closely fought contest,...
View Article#DesiGirlsRock: Jaya & Didi in control. Is Maya next?
May 19, 2016, will go down in India’s election history as one that defied predictions. For one, it razed the forecast of pollsters – and all except for C-Voter – got their numbers way off...
View ArticleAssembly Election Results: BJP strides ahead, Congress takes two steps backwards
Decisive verdict in five states comes with big gains for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP as they firmly established the lotus in Assam. BJP party president Amit Shah was all smiles after his party...
View ArticleVerdict 2016: Why the regional parties are the real winners
The scene for India’s regional politics was scripted by Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai in 1967. The screenwriter and playwright led his Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam to victory in Tamil Nadu (then Madras...
View ArticleDevelopment delivers for BJP, Hindutva agenda must take back seat
An impressive 10% vote share in Kerala and West Bengal, and a thumping win in Assam, affirms that BJP is the number one party in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance...
View ArticleSharp fall in the UDF vote share marks a turning point in Kerala politics
The victory of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the 2016 assembly elections marks a historical turning point in the political trajectory in the state. This is because the elections has for the first...
View ArticleAssam could head the Gujarat way for Congress
The gala coronation of Sarbananda Sonowal after BJP’s historic win in Assam has many other disturbing signals for Congress party than just an electoral defeat giving the saffron party their first-ever...
View ArticleImproving finances and boosting investments will be tough challenges for the...
Kerala is an unusually different economy to handle. And this is not just due to the large investments that have to be made to maintain its famed human development indicators or the huge surge in...
View ArticleMoney and business in the Rajya Sabha
The Election Commission has been trying hard to prevent political parties from distributing money to buy votes. This, of course, is commendable, even if such exertions only manage to make a dent on the...
View ArticleWhy leaders should change every decade
Booms and busts are not aberrations. They are intrinsic to market democracies. Many folks love the idea of steady, uninterrupted progress. This is socialism’s false promise, and helps explain why that...
View ArticleAnurag Thakur: The boy wonder of Indian cricket
Anurag Thakur’s coronation as president of Board of Cricket Control for India (BCCI) makes the 41-year-old BJP leader, the second-youngest president after former scion of Baroda family, Fatehsingh Rao...
View ArticleLeft bereft of Dalits, OBCs & Muslims ought to fail
This round of elections marked the clear decline of the mainstream Parliamentary Left. Supposedly the voice of the poor for a just, equal and a modern society, it always had a disproportionate amount...
View ArticleMr and Mrs BJP-Congress aur Kejriwal in Goa
Goa is a hot marriage destination these days. Maybe that’s what was on the mind of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal after the “massive” maiden rally in Panaji this Sunday and the announcement that his party...
View ArticlePinarayi Vijayan era will hopefully mark the beginnings of a sea change in...
The installation of Pinarayi Vijayan as the twelfth chief minister of Kerala marks the end of an old era and the beginnings of a sea change in left politics of Kerala. Born in the village...
View ArticleWhere Rishi Kapoor is right, and wrong
I found myself sympathizing with Rishi Kapoor the day I took the Delhi Metro. It is suspected he’s currying favour with the NDA by coming out strongly against having Nehru-Gandhi names for public...
View ArticleMamata 2.0: Why Didis aren’t ‘Bhadralok’
That ‘Aunt’s Aren’t Gentlemen’ is a truism is known to all fans of British writer of funny stories, PG Wodehouse. That was the title of Wodehouse’s last novel — the last the world saw of...
View ArticleNo place for violence as a political tool
Our sister publication, Ei Samay, reports the horrific aftermath of elections in Bengal that ended with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) coming to power, winning 211 of 294 seats in the state. Barely six...
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