When the Bharatiya Janata Party is engaged in a fierce political battle to capture power in Kolkata, the resumption of the ceasefire on the LoC in the north-west of India has acquired an importance of its own. A joint announcement by the militaries of India and Pakistan to strictly observe the 2003 ceasefire decision on […]
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Extensive use of social media by Indians has enabled the political actors to craft incisive propaganda strikes. Use of social media was a prominent feature of Narendra Modi-Prashant Kishor’s campaign strategy in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. It was a time when the mobile users were transiting into smart phones. Between 2014 to 2019, most of
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To remain relevant, irrespective of whether one donates for the Ram temple construction, Indians should ask a few questions of the fund collectors. The RSS and its affiliate organizations, including the ruling BJP, have launched the most massive public fund collection drive for construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, which will be built by
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If the RSS loves Savarkar, it should answer the question posed by Acharya Atre in 1941 – whether Savarkar was a hero of the freedom movement or an enemy of freedom? Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is back in the news in Maharashtra. Rahul Gandhi’s comment raised more than a storm in a teacup in the state.
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There are many questions which are in need of answers. The answers to these questions are the key to Congress revival. The Congress party has once again failed in the recently concluded Bihar assembly elections and in several by-polls across the country. Their failure has caused such a loss of face for the party that it
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Inclusive alliances are the way forward in Indian politics, and if Bihar is anything to go by, the opposition parties around the country have a lot of work to do. Amidst a strict nation-wide lockdown brought on by a pandemic, the BJP organised its first massive virtual meeting with its cadres and supporters in Bihar.
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Senior BJP leader Eknath Khadse quitting the party and joining the NCP is important for politics beyond immediate electoral gains or losses in Maharashtra. It has generated a discourse on the future of OBCs in the saffron party in the state. Its the first visible hole in the BJP’s umbrella of social engineering. Ekanath Khadse’s
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The Governor has expressed deep concerns with regards to the continued lockdown of temples, and therefore, according to him “our Gods and Goddesses have been condemned to stay in the lockdown.” This precisely has been the argument of Prabodhankar Thackeray that the Brahminical order has confined the existence of Gods and Goddesses only to the
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If we wish to understand how the Indian men’s minds are filled with filth about women, we need to read Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. The architect of the Indian Constitution had painstakingly pointed out that the misery of women in Indian society is because of the laws of Manu. In the aftermath of the Nirbhaya movement
The government’s adamant insistence on the 3 farms bills signals an either-or situation. Either Modi has miscalculated the entire gamble or he wants to pit poor and marginal farmers against the middleclass and rich farmers. Everything works for Modi and nothing works against him. This has been the experience of Narendra Modi’s friends and foes
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