The opposition in India hopefully and happily draws parallels between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, it has no real answers to why the former lost in 2020 and the latter won in 2019. A new year and a new decade began for the United States, and perhaps for the entire world, in […]
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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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The sequence of events since the Anna Hazare movement suggests a conspiratorial political roadmap. Was a movement spearheaded by India against Corruption during the UPA-II period created by the RSS? Were Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal propped up by the Hindutva mother-body? These are not new questions and the RSS itself would perhaps not fight
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The game of wait, watch and do little is being played in the political theatre of Maharashtra. There is a poignant political pause in Maharashtra. The ruling alliance appears unwilling to set a governance agenda. The powerful opposition, in the form of the BJP, is in no hurry to return to power. The lack of
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If the Congress wants to end its increasing national irrelevance, urgent introspection and action is the need of the hour. It has become business as usual for the media, political scientists, sociologists, leaders from the left to the right and the voters to talk about the Congress debacle. However, it is very rare to see
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Amit Shah’s eye continues to be fixed on Maharashtra. But there are three reasons why the BJP is likely to allow the Uddhav Thackeray-led government to continue. Parimal Maya Sudhakar explains. Will he? Won’t he? Certainly, he will! BJP’s Mission Man and India’s powerful home minister, Amit Shah, will not stop trying until the Maharashtra
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There is nothing about India’s policy on Jammu and Kashmir that would encourage anyone living in PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan to hope that New Delhi may offer them better terms than Pakistan does. 3 years and 9 months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reference to the ‘freedom struggle’ in Baluchistan from the rampart of the Red
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The present policy of ‘lockdown without preparation’ generates a suspicion about the intent of the ruling class. Even as the question why, in the first place, the lockdown was announced without an iota of preparation, remains to be answered, the delay of one full month to come up with any substantial relief to the migrant
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Over the past month, Uddhav Thackeray has emerged as a new rallying point for almost all the non-BJP folks in the state. Admiration for him increased to such an extent that a fairly successful I support Uddhav Thackeray campaign was trending on social media. The arrest of a television reporter in Mumbai has led to
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The real heroes emerging out of the coronavirus situation are several state governments. Long before the central government plunged into action, many state governments had undertaken various preventive measures to halt the spread of the virus. The states of Kerala, Maharashtra, and Delhi need a special mention for their early efforts to curb the virus
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