Remembering Somnath Chatterjee: The statesman who was betrayed by CPI(M)
When the CPI(M) decided to pull out of UPA1, another blunder by the Marxist party, Somnath Chatterjee would have been the Jyoti Basu of his...
Category : Opinion
When will the Opposition learn?
Opposition unity is more like a political flash mob where they come together for special performances like No-confidence Motion and again disperse. The Opposition led...
Why the RS Deputy Speaker election win was more necessary for Modi than Congress
Why in the first place victory in the Rajya Sabha Deputy Speaker election so important for NDA, more so for Modi? The election for...
Kalaignar Karunanidhi: The Dravidian sun has set over Tamil Nadu
Karunanidhi joined Dravida Munnetra Kazhgam as a disciple of the Dravidian ideology but his unwavering faith has made him synonymous to the movement. On...
“You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall”: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Is the contribution of Nehru to India so negligible that it can be obliterated from India’s collective memory? When I was in school, the Jawaharlal...
Nitin Gadkari is asking the right question: Where are the jobs?
It remains a big mystery what transpired in these five months that Nitin Gadkari who was boasting about the job creation number of the current...
Modi is stepping towards his ‘Shah Bano’ moment and it is dangerous
Rajiv Gandhi appeased Muslims for vote bank, Modi is doing nothing different to Dalits by overturning SC order in SC/ST Act. The great German...
Milind Khandekar and Punya Prasson Bajpai are just latest victims of self-censorship
The self-censorship imposed by the media owners on journalists is a classic example of how the mediums crawl when asked to bend. Henry Anatole...
Has Mamata Banerjee considered herself opposition’s PM candidate already?
Mamata Banerjee has carefully carved an image for herself as a force that binds the opposition. “Let us first defeat the BJP. We will sit...
North Karnataka statehood: Politics takes over the genuine issue
For that matter, the separate North Karnataka state issue has more to do with upcoming Lok Sabha elections than it has to do with the...