Aam Aadmi jumps in
India’s all-new Aam Aadmi Party has made a shrewd, calculated move by quitting the Delhi government and jumping into national politics. The issue on which it precipitated its action was…
In Pawar`s shadow
BETWEEN a story and the reason for it, there often falls a shadow. The news item, published in a Marathi newspaper, that Sharad Pawar had met Narendra Modi was not…
Aam Aadmi’s missteps
A month after it stormed to power in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party has tarnished its image by taking three false steps. First, its law minister Somnath Bharti and women…
The political calculus
WHY, and when, does a politician defect? The simplistic, but not all that simple, answer is money. We have good reason, of course, to be cynical about the morality of…
Limitless joy of terror
Aseemanand is Sanskritised Hindi for boundless joy. Hindutva acolyte Swami Aseemanand exuded that feeling nicely in a series of tape-recorded interviews he gave to The Caravan magazine. According to the tapes…
A collaborative media and future shock
The feeding frenzy over Rahul Gandhi’s first ever television interview is yet to end. Every single sound bite and every imaginable angle and contour of the media outing of the…
No absolution for Gujarat massacre
Ever since Ahmedabad magistrate BJ Ganatra rejected Zakia Jafri’s petition in the Gujarat carnage case in December and held that Chief Minister Narendra Modi was not part of the “larger…
Being human in Bollywood
Alia Bhatt is barely out of her teens and is just one-film-old in Bollywood parlance. The star was recently in the news with bigwigs such as superstar Salman Khan and…
Where does the AAP stand?
As the Lok Sabha election looms, India’s political battle lines are being redrawn. The Congress, mauled in recent elections, is dispirited. Rahul Gandhi’s probable anointment as its prime ministerial candidate…
Challenges: known and unknown
DURING the six months of the current government, there have been few changes on major national issues. Given the rapidly evolving global, regional and domestic developments, the national challenges facing…
