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Shubhabrata Bhattacharya

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Opinion | Congress, Wayanad And Rahul: Flags of Discontent

Three days after 27 constituents of the INDIA bloc congregated at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan to protest against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party...

05.04.2024 10

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Opinion | How 'Victim' Mindset, Lack Of Narrative Is Hurting The INDIA Bloc

On Sunday, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) parties held an impressive 'Loktantra Bachao' (Save Democracy) rally at...

01.04.2024 10

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Opinion: Sandeshkhali And The Stark Irony Of Mamata's 'Ma, Maati, Manush' Plank

Filmmaker Shakti Samanta's 1975 movie Amaanush (translated as Inhumane), which went on to win eight Filmfare awards, was shot in the scenic locales of...

07.03.2024 10

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Opinion: Modi Dives Right In For A Win, Congress Continues To Tread Water

On Sunday, Narendra Modi scuba-dived into the deep sea to pray at a Mahabharata-era temple at Bet Dwarka. Many see it as yet another pre-poll...

27.02.2024 6

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Opinion: BJP Firms Up '370' Vision, Congress Continues To Flounder

It was a politically charged weekend. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held its extended national council meeting at New Delhi's Bharat Mandapam, the...

20.02.2024 20

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Opinion: Bharat Ratna Awards-Merit Gets Primacy Over Party Affiliations

In a span of just two days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi engaged in a dual strategy towards the Congress party: while openly criticising and rebuking...

12.02.2024 6

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Opinion: Is INDIA Bloc Missing Sonia Gandhi's Touch?

Two statements last week by prime leaders of the parties that, to date, pass off as INDIA bloc members, provide pointers towards the outcome of the...

05.02.2024 10

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Opinion: Nirmala Sitharaman's Speech Redefines Secularism, Recasts Castes

The absence of populism, or 'rewdi' - as freebies are referred to these days - in Nirmala Sitharaman's interim budget speech radiated the Narendra...

03.02.2024 10

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Opinion: Advisers Misled And Alarmed Rajiv Gandhi, Says Zail Singh's Aide

Insights on how advisers misled and alarmed Rajiv Gandhi during five years of his premiership are cited in an interview published in a commemorative...

20.01.2024 6

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Opinion: Ayodhya - Congress's Epic Tragedy Of Errors

Oblivious of Congress's history and the part played by it in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, both obtrusively and unobtrusively, the current leadership...

19.01.2024 10

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Opinion: Rahul Gandhi's Yatra 2.0 Delayed By Fog, Eclipsed By Milind Deora

The son of Murli Deora, the Congress's fund collector and first to acknowledge Sonia Gandhi as 'the real boss' way back in 1985, has quit the party....

14.01.2024 7

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Opinion: With "Advisers" Like These, Rahul Gandhi Needs No Enemies

Rahul Gandhi's trusted advisors have a penchant for making statements that queer the pitch for the Congress before elections. Sam Pitroda's comment on...

02.01.2024 20

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Opinion: Can A Bharat Jodo Yatra 2.0 Help Congress In 2024?

Invites to the Ram Temple consecration in Ayodhya have sent the Opposition on a tailspin. The Left parties, as expected, have spoken against the...

29.12.2023 10

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Opinion: Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal's Kharge Googly

The fourth meeting of the 28-party INDIA alliance did not produce a common vision document listing an agenda to take on the BJP-led NDA in 2024. All...

22.12.2023 7

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Opinion: Pranab Mukherjee Felt Rahul Gandhi Is "Yet To Mature Politically"

President Pranab Mukherjee had observed that Rahul Gandhi's "theatrics" of gate-crashing Ajay Maken's press conference on 27 September 2013 and...

08.12.2023 7

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Opinion: "Modi Ki Guarantee" Is The BJP's Warranty

The BJP's triumph and the Congress's inability to hold its ground in the heartland marked the state election results. The BJP looks poised for a hat...

04.12.2023 20

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Opinion: Supreme Court's Hindenburg Observations Should Bring Down "AQI" In Politics

In addition to the national capital being polluted to hazardous levels, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) reaching its nadir, the nation's political...

25.11.2023 10

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Opinion: Mahua Moitra's Conduct Compounds Ethics Case - Will It Attract Contempt?

Mahua Moitra may have lost her opportunity to defend her conduct before Lok Sabha's Ethics Committee with her behaviour during the proceedings and her...

05.11.2023 5

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Opinion: Mamata Banerjee Will Find It Hard To Defend L'affair Mahua Moitra

On Vijayadashami day, as West Bengal's annual religio-cultural Durga Puja festivities wound down, Cyclone 'Hamoon' threatened the coastal areas of the...

25.10.2023 4

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Opinion: Rahul Gandhi Crafts His Own Narrative, Separate From Congress

Rahul Gandhi's call of "jitni aabadi utna haq" (quota proportionate to strength in population), designed to draw the OBCs (Other Backward Castes), is...

07.10.2023 10

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Opinion: Kamal Nath Shows Mirror To INDIA, Stalls Rally

The INDIA Bloc coordination committee's September 13 decision to hold a rally in Bhopal on October 1 was scrapped three days later. The reason - Kamal...

18.09.2023 10

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Opinion: Cheerio India, Namaste Bharat

The special session of parliament beginning Monday has generated much speculation. The media has been approaching the subject like the proverbial...

16.09.2023 10

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Opinion: African Union In G20 - Seismic Change Under Modi's Leadership

When Narendra Modi stood at Delhi's Rajghat on a rain-soaked Sunday morning to receive G20 dignitaries who paid tribute to the Father of the Nation, a...

11.09.2023 5

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