Modi, Muzaffarnagar and a Nehruvian hero
Lord Meghnad Desai is aghast at the way the Indian authorities and the Supreme Court have dealt with the alleged molestation case involving Justice AK Ganguly. Joining a television debate…
Lord Meghnad Desai is aghast at the way the Indian authorities and the Supreme Court have dealt with the alleged molestation case involving Justice AK Ganguly. Joining a television debate…
Change has come to India. The great democracy is undergoing an unprecedented churning and a new political narrative is emerging. Pundits agree that the emergence of the ‘common man’ has…
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…
Gujrat Chief Minister Narendra Modi faces two contradictory trends. In the elections to three state assemblies, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh,his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party made an impressive showing.…
After its stunning electoral debut in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party finds itself in a dilemma. Both the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress have offered to support the AAP if…
Shahbaz’s Sharif’s meeting with Manmohan Singh in the Indian capital last Thursday was the second by a leading Pakistani official with the Indian prime minister in the three months that…
SOON after the scale of the Aam Aadmi Party`s (AAP) success in the Delhi state elections became apparent, Shah Mahmood Qureshi keenly likened the Indian anti-corruption party to his own.…
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently lamented the focus of the media on the rise in vegetable prices and not on the recent downward trend in prices. This statement was extremely…
Why is social media so important? More people are using social media through their mobile phones, computers, and tablets than talking, calling, emailing and texting. Do you find this surprising?…
In the 1990s a brave new political culture emerged from the bowels of the Bill Clinton political machine. Stan Greenberg, James Carville and Dick Morris helped shape this new culture.…