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Lessons from AAP: How BJP can be fought without inviting charges of ‘minority appeasement’'AAP has brought the people together by providing a promise of noncorrupt, non-communal governance without favouring one community over ano...
How BJP used RTI to embarrass CongressIn last four years, the RTI cell of the BJP, probably the only recognised political party to have such a unit, has filed more than 2,000 ap...
AAP’s success is based on unique model, but can it be applied nationally?The 28 seats won by AAP in the national capital have the potential to question some long-held assumptions of Indian politics
Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen questions relevance of Minority Affairs MinistryThe UPA government claims it to be one of its signature achievements, but Abhijit Sen has all but questioned its relevance and, therefore, ...
Sonia Gandhi prefers progressive social policies to balance growth with equitySonia Gandhi believes the poor need to be shielded from the vagaries of the market and they must get the benefits the market refused to sha...
No monolithic Muslim vote, but will vote as a bloc in 2014 to keep Narendra Modi outMuslim voting preferences show religious sentiments are secondary. Muslims vote on party lines, and not on the basis of sectarian identity.
Congress may have to fight big states without regional partnersThe Cong faces the daunting task of going into LS polls without regional partners in major states, in coming 2014 elections.
It's shame on Ambedkar's memory: Yogendra YadavWith the govt forced into withdrawing the NCERT's textbook, Indian Constitution at Work, Yogendra Yadav & S Palshikar quit as the Council's...
- Monitoring books become federal issue, ministry drops idea
The human resource development ministry has decided to drop the idea of setting up a regulatory mechanism to monitor textbooks.