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It was a pleasant surprise to know that the majority of the people of India still believe that their country is a country of people of all...
As narratives are being floated with the obliging connivance of the captive media, each day is proving to be rather too long in current Indian...
Because it is Gujarat, the latest comment by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that flaunting and eating meat during the Hindu holy month of sawan...
Having lost two consecutive general elections in 2014 (leading the coalition United Progressive Alliance) and in 2019 (without any alliance), the...
When Narendra Modi attacked Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav recently for violating the ‘strict norm’ of vegetarianism during the Ram...
Narendra Modi’s electoral success in Gujarat between 2001 and 2014 and on the Indian scene since then stems from his novel blend of populism and...
This election is the moment of final reckoning for our democracy. The choice is stark – between freedom and tyranny. Our situation couldn’t be...
Two competing national parties, the Congress and the Bhartiya Janata Party have released their 2024 election manifestos. Congress has taken a...
Aristotle made speech the essence of politics and posterity concurred with him. Modern democratic thought – from deliberative democracy to...
Sikkim goes to poll for the 32 Assembly seats and the lone Lok Sabha seat on April 19. The major actors in the fray are the two regional parties:...
Trending on Twitter, flashing on news channels, faces in the spotlight, and DMs flooded. This is the unexpected fame surrounding the...
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rather frivolous allegation against the opposition for “eating mutton during [the month of] sawan,” much...
“I live out by O’Hare. Every time a plane flies overhead at night, my hands shake. I’m looking for a place to hide. And then the sirens too –...
Stakeholder #1 is Hardik ‘Controversy’ Pandya. Yes, that should be his name. The rock star captain of the Mumbai Indians is talented, flashy...
Mea Culpa. This reporter is a wrong person to write about The Kerala Story, a film by two non Malayalis, director Sudipto Sen and producer Vipul...
Electioneering is in full throttle. As the temperatures and decibel levels rise, so do informed and uninformed rumours and predictions despite a...
The BJP has produced a splendid manifesto, if elections are all about beautiful photographs – sparkling, colourful, creative images of Prime...
How can the Indian mainstream media claim to be trustees of the truth when it is gripped by an overwhelming fear of stating the facts? In the...
In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, almost the entire global media and pro-government organisations within the Indian industry are...
A sharp shift in the political temper of the country, heading to the 18th Lok Sabha elections, can arguably, be attributed to the explosive...
Last month, Arvind Kejriwal – the sitting chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi – was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate...
Ever since independence in 1947, India has been a gloriously messy democracy. In Sunil Khilnani’s analysis, our way of being democratic has been...
Donkey, monkey, stupid, idiot…the words still ring and sting many years after they were hurled routinely by a bellicose boss at a room full of...
Under the guidelines of the National Education Policy, 2020 , several institutions now offer ‘multi-disciplinary’ courses which have been designed...
From the soundings an observer may take just before the first polling for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on April 19, politically, the chips look to...
When a sizeable majority of the nation swoons over violent calls of religious majoritarianism, literally offered through a Hindutva DJ, on the one...