Bihar Elections: What’s In Store For Prashant Kishor?
The exit from Bihar’s regional party JDU doesn’t mean that election strategist Prashant Kishor has exited Bihar politics. Patna| It was an unceremonious exit for...
Category : Opinion
The Significance of the Last Months of 2019 and What 2020 May Hold for India
Are we witnessing a 1974 moment when students were protesting in Bihar and Gujarat at a time when Jayaprakash (JP) Narain was yet to emerge...
Can the Left Become Politically Relevant in Modi’s India?
In 2014, when the number of Members of Parliament belonging to the Left shrunk to ten from 24 in 2009, some of us (including this...
Media and Modi Mandate
by Kumar Ketkar
The “TsuNamo” did not strike in Tamil Nadu. The Braveheart Modi could not inspire Punjab. However, Pulwama and Balakot had proved to be game changers. ...
17th Lok Sabha Polls- The Aftermath
Unlike the UPA the NDA campaign was personality based and converged a lot to one man – Narendra Modi. The campaign almost took the presidential...
What is similar between Narendra Modi and Indira Gandhi?
Let us assume electronic voting machines cannot be manipulated. Let us assume the number in each and every EVM perfectly matches the number in the...
Sensex rallies over 400 pts after Modi’s resounding victory
Mumbai | The benchmark BSE Sensex rallied over 400 points in early trade on Friday a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP got an absolute...
What next for PM Modi post elections?
by Kumar Ketkar
Exactly 36 days from now, on May 23, the fate and fortune of the country will be decided. It is going to be the truly...
Arrest of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Threatens The Journalism Around The World
by Hanzala Aman
“Progressives” who should have been defending Assange, have sadly been rejoicing for he could soon be tried in the US courts. On April 11th,...
Ambedkar and his forgotten contributions to the great Indian election system
Today India’s Election commission advises many Asian and African nations on smooth and orderly conduct of elections. Today is 128th birth anniversary of Dr Babasaheb...