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Ram won’t help but Nitish might

IN the end, the bluster of Ram temple could not lift Narendra Modi’s spirits and he had to turn to Nitish Kumar for help. The chief minister of Bihar is a crucial…

Kanhaiya Kumar As Beckett’s Godot

Kanhaiya Kumar as Beckett’s Godot

We can look at the Kanhaiya Kumar phenomenon through several lenses. Let’s choose two. He can be cast as a messiah from a Cecil B. DeMille movie. And he can…

NDA, not BJP

RESULTS of the Indian general election from this past week took most observers by surprise. A comfortable return to power for the BJP was the dominant analytical consensus prior to…

Modi won’t go down sans a fight

MOST neutral observers are sanguine that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is winning a third term. Let’s put it this way, it isn’t a foregone conclusion that Mr Modi is losing…

Back to the two-lock basics

IT wasn’t a coincidence that two vote-rich Indian states ruled by two formidable opposition leaders — both regarded as prime minister material — witnessed headline-catching communal violence last week. Coupled…

A sense of history would help

INDIA’S fabled constitution is struggling with a very Indian flaw. It has too many filters to stop it from choking. The preamble promises a secular socialist democracy. Many are openly…

India votes against Brand Modi

There is one thing certain in the 2024 Indian elections: no single party got a majority by itself to form the government. For the first time, Indian Prime Minister Narendra…

The real winners

The BJP-led NDA/JD-U alliance succeeded in retaining a majority in the Bihar assembly elections. NDA won 125 seats out of 243 seats, more than what was needed to form a…

If Modi Wins Again

If Modi wins again

If Narendra Modi’s BJP romps home to victory in the just announced Indian general elections in the face of all-pervasive public anger against the regime for the mindboggling mess it…

Can Rahul Stop The Modi Juggernaut?

Can Rahul stop the Modi juggernaut?

What’s Rahul Gandhi having these days for breakfast? The scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has been on a roll after having discovered his ‘mojo’. His stinging attacks on Narendra Modi…