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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…