Mr Modi has been now for more than a decade plus as an international observation. Books on him have been about his personality, his near cult status as an icon for his followers. If he was polarising, five years of premiership has reduced the opposite view to a fringe, either way, due to his managing […]
We are staring at a new startling game of political brinkmanship, to deliver votes to their camp, with first the government thinking of making a direct benefit transfer poll eve to most of the PDS card holding officially poor, like how TN government did for Pongal which was cleared by judicial challenge. What Mr Rahul […]
Look at the CBI saga, and it is just a candle to what ails India, and why it will keep failing India’s strategic wherewithal. We have a widow seeking investigation into her husband’s cold blooded murder at the Supreme Court, and their Lordships have read a riot act to the agencies involved, and what option […]
Of course, it is rather clear that all that is happening from 01 January 2019 is about political battleground that appears to be a bit of a challenge for the NDA at this point. From what was perceived as a walkover, is now turning into serious battle, the stakes getting ratcheted up by every passing […]
It has two MPs from UP, which is India’s bellwether state. For 2019 the INC had to do some thing drastic. But in what can only be called a ‘strategic move’, the party timidly delayed the ascent of Mr Rahul to December 2017, and has now found the nerve to announce Ms Priyanka Vadra as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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