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The Party’s Over In Uttar Pradesh

The party’s over in Uttar Pradesh

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. How else does one explain the antics of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav, the Uttar…

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…

Change his name if BJP wins

THERE is a perceptible voter fatigue against divisive planks. That’s encouraging news coming in for Indian democracy, which braces for a seven-stage general election starting Friday. The last round of voting is…

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…

The crooked timber of Modi’s India

WHEN Parakala Prabhakar published his essays in April last year in a book titled The Crooked Timber of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis, one ignored it on suspicion…

Fable of the bicycle and a plane

THE inability to accept defeat with grace comes from an authoritarian streak found in enfeebled democracies. Donald Trump and Narendra Modi, for example, are peas in a pod in this…

Critical days for Modi and rivals

THE underplayed defeat for his government by 32 seats in the parliamentary elections, with a whopping loss of 63 BJP MPs from the previous tally, may have reined in Prime…

Why not directly elect a tycoon?

ABOUT dialectics, the rulebook says, any two phenomena in the big world are related in a range of ways. “The flapping of the wings of a butterfly can be felt…

Flutter of the butterfly’s wings

ABOUT dialectics, the rulebook says, any two phenomena in the big world are related in a range of ways. “The flapping of the wings of a butterfly can be felt…

G20 with a hope and a prayer

THE inveterate Hindu in him spurred the British prime minister to take time off from the G20 summit to offer prayers at Delhi’s riverside Akshardham temple. In so doing, he…