After two Lok Sabha iterations, multiplayer politics on the national level gets its mojo backWe, along with Modi, are entering uncharted waters now. Uncharted not for India, of course - which has had plenty of trysts with coalition ...
05 Jun, 2024, 10.36 PM IST
View: Win for secularism but not human rightsMamata is passionately secular but appears to have no qualms about eroding institutions or misusing laws to serve her ends. Arbitrary arres...
09 May, 2021, 10.09 AM IST
To find a resolution for Nagas, people need to forsake politics by the gun: Nagaland GovernorThe Governor said that the people of Nagaland have not been able to reap optimum benefit of these as well as various progressive schemes of...
26 Jan, 2021, 01.13 PM IST
Congress wants 'defenestration' of PM Modi, BJP: Shashi TharoorSpeaking on Priyanka Gandhi's induction as the Congress's general secretary, the 62-year-old MP from Thiruvananthapuram said she had the ch...
28 Jan, 2019, 12.44 PM IST
View: Misuse of power in Karnataka cannot be justified as an ancient art of politicsToday BJP 2018 is strikingly similar to Congress 1970s. The so called “party with a difference” has become a party of no difference.
23 May, 2018, 10.12 AM IST
Making China great again: Xi grabs power to resolve current contradictions, but could trigger new ones?Xi’s consolidation of power likely has two objectives. The first is personal – Xi seeks to cement his legacy. Since Mao, no other Chinese l...
30 Mar, 2018, 03.03 PM IST
View: Xi Jinping’s 3rd term may hit China’s global ambitionsIn the lead-up to the Congress, Xi systematically decimated rival factions, including via his anti-corruption drive, and emerged as the und...
28 Feb, 2018, 10.41 PM IST
Is Modi momentum slowing down? Crony spiritualism and a depressed economy could impede Mission 350Should the economic rebound not happen by next year, merely weeding out corruption will be seen as inadequate and an intangible goal to win...
31 Aug, 2017, 08.39 PM IST
The idea of India says persuade, not dictateThe architects of independent India wagered on a design they hoped would resist succumbing to any singular impulse or ideology, to a strong...
15 Aug, 2017, 11.22 AM IST
Ex-Delhi CJ AP Shah slams rising cult of nationalism, bats for free speechShah questioned “nationalism“ that forced one to “stand for the national anthem at a movie theatre“ and prescribed what people could and co...
20 Apr, 2017, 01.35 PM IST
Former CEC B B Tandon to head panel to monitor government adsSenior TV journalist Rajat Sharma and ad-man Piyush Pandey will be the other members of the committee.
06 Apr, 2016, 08.19 PM IST
No threat of Emergency today, says M Venkaiah NaiduGovt dismissed Opposition charge of a threat to the Constitution and sought to turn tables on the Congress for imposing Emergency when fund...
27 Nov, 2015, 03.39 PM IST
Politicians should learn from Vajpayee's humility: LK AdvaniA week away from the 40th anniversary of the Emergency, LK Advani says that his comments about a return of an emergency were not directed a...
20 Jun, 2015, 12.21 PM IST
SC's ban on CM photos in government ads snatches state rights: KarunanidhiThe former TN CM believes that the SC judgement is "snatching away state rights" as the constitution gives "equal status" to PMs and CMs.
14 May, 2015, 02.47 PM IST
Photos of President, PM, CJI may feature in government advertisements: Supreme CourtBench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi approved the suggestions given by a three-member committee on regulation of public advertisements, bar...
13 May, 2015, 11.30 PM IST
LS polls 2014: 650 schemes in Nehru-Gandhi family's name, BJP hits back at CongressBJP has taken Congress to task for glorifying contributions of one single family by launching 650 schemes in Nehru-Gandhis' name.
16 Apr, 2014, 03.39 PM IST
Creating a threatening other: the alarming attitude of the state and its political facesThe state and its political faces like Modi brand adversaries as anti-national and anti-democratic forces, but is this the truth?
18 Jun, 2013, 10.50 AM IST