SWAPAN DASGUPTA

Editor, TOI

Stories by the author

• View: Indian democracy is thriving, but the parliamentary system is in deep crisis

  
  08 Aug 2021 10:01 AM IST
• View: How pandemic is forcing rejig of ‘minimum government’ concept

  
  25 Jul 2021 10:03 AM IST
• View: Twenty years later, the Taliban are more confident, and the West weaker in its resolve

  
  11 Jul 2021 10:12 AM IST
• Politics is competitive but do we have to demonise each other?

  
  27 Jun 2021 11:28 AM IST
• View: How ‘woke’ folks are out to tarnish government’s image

  
  30 May 2021 10:15 AM IST
• View: What a ‘secular’ rejigging in West Bengal means for national politics

  
  07 Mar 2021 10:25 AM IST
• How chant of Jai Shri Ram became a subaltern war cry in West Bengal

  
  21 Feb 2021 11:28 AM IST
• View: Why farm protests haven’t found much resonance in other parts

  
  07 Feb 2021 10:14 AM IST
• View: How the tyranny of distance amplifies some protests, ignores others

  
  24 Jan 2021 10:19 AM IST
• View: As Bengal polls near, expect political football over Netaji’s 125th birth anniversary

  
  10 Jan 2021 10:38 AM IST
• View: The French issue is bigger than a few tasteless cartoons

  
  01 Nov 2020 11:02 AM IST
• View: Amid fear giving way to carelessness, a look at what India's public Covid policy should (and shouldn't) be

  
  18 Oct 2020 11:25 AM IST
• View: Ram Mandir doesn’t negate Constitution, it links antiquity to present

  
  09 Aug 2020 10:16 AM IST
• View: Modi 2.0 looks set to fulfil poll promises, Covid crisis or not

  
  07 Jun 2020 10:26 AM IST
• View: With tough lockdown, Modi upturns the belief that lives in India are cheap

  
  03 May 2020 10:05 AM IST
• View: How the anti-CAA stir became a Muslim upsurge against Modi govt

  
  08 Mar 2020 11:35 AM IST
• View: West is selective on refugees, so why scoff at India for CAA?

  
  23 Feb 2020 11:37 AM IST
• View: Citizenship act has corrected a historic blunder

  
  15 Dec 2019 11:27 AM IST
• View: Bypoll results show BJP can’t bank on Modi-Shah magic to win West Bengal

  
  01 Dec 2019 10:30 AM IST
• View: Indira and VP Singh could have buried 370 but they clung to it as a test of secularism

  
  11 Aug 2019 11:11 AM IST
• View: A Brexit-weary Britain sorely needed someone like Boris Johnson

  
  28 Jul 2019 12:34 PM IST
• View: How BJP handles power will decide future of Opposition

  
  30 Jun 2019 10:28 AM IST
• View: What this overwhelming mandate for Modi is actually all about

  
  26 May 2019 12:03 PM IST
• View: A month is a long time in an election, so don’t discount the makings of a wave

  
  05 May 2019 10:40 AM IST
• View: 2019 is a near-referendum on Modi. TINA will matter little

  
  07 Apr 2019 12:02 PM IST
• View: There is a reason why both techies and those 131 CAs are backing Modi

  
  24 Mar 2019 12:02 PM IST
• View: India's got only two choices now — either go soft again, or brace for body bags

  
  24 Feb 2019 11:08 AM IST
• India has an obligation to those left on the 'wrong' side after Partition

  
  13 Jan 2019 11:09 AM IST
• View: 2019 will be a one-man show, a presidential-style campaign

  
  16 Dec 2018 11:35 AM IST
• View: How politics is making a bhakt out of Rahul Gandhi

  
  02 Dec 2018 11:20 AM IST
• If harassment was open secret, why long conspiracy of silence?

  
  21 Oct 2018 10:29 AM IST
• Why the Sabarimala verdict is an act of social engineering

  
  07 Oct 2018 10:24 AM IST
• Cry fascism! Modi critics fall back on oldest trick in politics

  
  09 Sep 2018 12:04 PM IST
• View: Why top-down Hindu reform is not a good idea

  
  29 Jul 2018 11:38 AM IST
• Win or lose today, minnow Croatia has already won the bigger war

  
  15 Jul 2018 11:04 AM IST
• View: India just missed out on a big leadership opportunity

  
  22 Apr 2018 12:17 PM IST
• How the likes of Cambridge Analytica can change politics

  
  25 Mar 2018 11:09 AM IST
• View: India’s progressives don’t get the real reason for Lenin’s bulldozing

  
  11 Mar 2018 11:39 AM IST
• The rating that matters comes next month from Gujarat and Himachal

  
  19 Nov 2017 10:50 AM IST
• View: India’s urban elite rediscovers Rahul baba in Berkeley

  
  24 Sep 2017 10:34 AM IST
• As anti-BJP front lies in tatters, Bihar coup gives Modi's ability to surprise a legendary status

  
  30 Jul 2017 12:01 PM IST
• View: Why we are more achhe today than three years ago

  
  21 May 2017 10:47 AM IST
• View: Local poll results show that the BJP is the number 1 national party

  
  26 Feb 2017 12:05 PM IST
• India figures high in Trump's premier league, make it count

  
  29 Jan 2017 03:09 PM IST
• Don't let Uniform Civil Code row hijack triple talaq reform

  
  30 Oct 2016 12:21 PM IST
• Name change admits a reality: There's no rewind to one Bengal

  
  04 Sep 2016 11:45 AM IST
• HRD mantri's real job is not fire-fighting, it's education

  
  10 Jul 2016 10:36 AM IST
• Does it matter if Narendra Modi has not heard of guacamole?

  
  12 Jun 2016 12:32 PM IST