Women have been in our polity since pre Independence times, in a significant though marginal presence, a Sarojini Naidu, a Bikaji Cama were seen as exceptional, and hence the revolutionary freedom fight seemed to concede space to them. Post Independence, one needed family background to be in politics, except for the rise of Mayawati, Mamata […]
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Now that the 10% Quota debate is done and dusted, and the Rafale Deal has become somewhat mainstream news with clear lines on either side, the electoral season seems to be well and truly underway. The biggest surprises are how Mr Modi retains much of his credibility and recall with his electorate personally, despite detractors […]
What a surprise is going on for last three days, and while MLAs from Karnataka are cooling their heels in Gurugram’s Five Star hotel, rumours are that some Congress MLAs too were recharging their worn out selves in climes and surroundings so surreal that one who returned claimed that his phone had gone bad! This […]
The clarion call of Mr Amit Shah to BJP workers had a theme of the Third Battle of Panipat. So without getting into a history lesson of who was culpable for the defeat of Marathas at the hands of Afghani Abdali, let us see what was at array in Panipat in 1761, and how it […]
The statement made for the BJP gathering by Ms Nirmala Seetharamanhttps://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/no-corruption-major-terror-attack-under-modi-rule-nirmala-sitharaman/articleshow/67499726.cms as Defence Minister was naturally surprising on two counts. Both focussed on internal security, one by stating that no major terror attacks have happened since 2014, and the other was about Congress party confabulating with Pakistan. On the latter charge, she will again be […]
The battle lines in India’s largest Electoral College for the Lok Sabha is drawn. BSP and SP let by Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav have sealed their deal, sharing a neat 38 seats each leaving out four, 02 out of deference to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi individually and 02 for perhaps the RLD of Ajit […]
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The Parrot pipsqueak!
Contrast with how the Supreme Court had come down heavily on the government of the day when it called the CBI a ‘Caged Parrot’. It came to this conclusion, not because the CBI was witnessing a turnstile treatment of its Director as now, but it was an observation about the pressures being placed on the […]
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Caste aside by casting net.
This is another midnight stroke, quite like the one on 08 November 2016, which began with a prefaced address to the nation that rang with the syllable echo of “Mitron”! Only here this was a Cabinet decision of the government that enjoys a clear majority in the Lok Sabha, the first in three decades, and […]
t seems that Indians do not understand a better perspective than cricket. So when I presage the discussion with a preface of cricket, I am aware of how much easier it translates into perception and acceptance in our midst. So this is a rank turner, and the team that won the toss, like at Sydney […]
How do we view Kerala, the land of Parashurama, nestled between the seas and the Western Ghats? While new evidence has crept of washed up pottery, saptamatrikas and other statues, that were discovered not far from Kaladi, points to very ancient civilisation, we really do not need archeology to tell us how ancient and how […]
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