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21 July 2019 Arguably she was everyone’s aunty, the late Sheila Dikshit, formidable political heavyweight who managed to rule Delhi for three terms across two different political alignments and hostile judicial environment and came to her own legacy, that one of the best tributes for her was by Mr Sudheendra Kulkarni, who lamented that unlike… Read more

17 July 2019 We are witness to the fracas over the import of MLAs and their fungible loyalty, over the last five years. Even more acutely we also see how the biggest exporter of political talent from the various political parties is the Congress Party to the BJP, in a manner that back of hand… Read more

13 July 2019 The only way one can look at Supreme Court proceedings in context of our politics is how and why repeated the matters are heard without imposing prohibitive costs on those parties, mostly the Union Government that wastes the time of the Courts, just because it is politically expedient. If one looks at… Read more

12 July 2019 Since Ms Sitaraman chose not to read out the numbers, one had deferred judgement on the content and intent of the budget proposals. Of course, government led think tanks and their acolytes have made Ms Sitaraman’s proposals a heady success, many calling her as conforming to the larger grandness of Mr Modi’s… Read more

11 July 2019 Only fools would think that platitudes mouthed or empty denials issued on the floor of Parliament would actually amount to some assurance or other. If any thing, this government is known for its skullduggery, the BJP under Mr Amit Shah is known for simply not conceding any quarter to any adversary or… Read more

9 July 2019 Remember the big controversy that derailed the run of Hillary Clinton for Presidency? The label that Mr Trump gave her of ‘crooked Hillary’? Remember those promises to get to the bottom of it all? Well the use of private email servers was at the ‘bottom’ of the controversy surrounding the conduct of… Read more