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Regulating party elections

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah remained the president of the All India Muslim League from 1937 to 1943. Abul-Kalam Azad was the president of the All India Congress from 1936 to…

National congress

The meeting of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is very important in the sense that it determines the leadership of China and its goals. The…

Reviving Congress

ON hearing of the fall of the Bastille in 1789, King Louis XVI asked “Is it a revolt?” The wise Rochefoucauld replied, “No, Sire. It’s a revolution.” In India, the…

Party vs democracy

EVENTS in India of late richly illustrate once again that Indian ‘democracy’ is unique among recognised parliamentary democracies. This should cause no surprise. The fault lines were set in 1937…

How Congress Helped Hindutva

How Congress helped Hindutva

Indian Muslims fell out of love with the Congress Party, long before Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in his infinite wisdom decided to unlock the doors of the 16th century Babri…

Can Congress Survive Sans The Gandhis?

Can Congress survive sans the Gandhis?

Without a Gandhi at the top, India’s Congress Party is increasingly looking and acting like a headless chicken. Since its debacle in the recent general elections, there has been a…

A Muslim congresswoman

“THIS is a president really that has put his interests and his financial interests above the country and the nation’s interests, and so there are multiple things the president has…