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, by TRIPATHI Salil
Only one man knows the mind of Narendra Modi, and his name is Narendra Modi. And yet, discarding cynicism and skepticism of political manipulation, several business executives, intellectuals and economists appear to have taken him and his supporters at their word and accepted him as an exemplar (…)
, by BARDHAN Pranab
The Modi hype is relentless. But some of our institutions of democracy are still fragile for us to risk a firebrand leader.
The drumbeats are all around us, proclaiming the triumphal arrival of Narendra Modi as our next prime minister. They are already reaching deafening proportions among (…)
, by GANDHI Gopalkrishna
There is a strange stillness in the air. Marine geographers have a word for it – the Doldrums. The word signifies a stupor, in which everyone and everything is listless, stagnant and immobilised. Coleridge describes the state of the Pacific Doldrums in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
All in a (…)
The two major parties are finding the going tough. While the BJP is faced with dissent and revolt by senior leaders who are upset with the growing personality cult, the Congress has trouble convincing its heavyweights to enter the election fray.
THE heat of the campaign often generates (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
A group of noted academics, artists and concerned citizens have issued an appeal, in the context of Elections 2014, to defend India’s secular democracy.
The statement, the lead signatories to which are Zoya Hasan, Rooprekha Verma, Sashi Kumar, Vivan Sundaram, Achin Vanaik, Jayati Ghosh and (…)
The BJP and the Congress unleash their campaign blitzkriegs highlighting the “Gujarat model” of development and “Bharat Nirman” respectively, triggering a debate on what constitutes development.
DEVELOPMENT has become the buzzword in the campaign for the 2014 general election. The two (…)
, by PUNIYANI Ram
The spectacular performance of Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi Assembly elections (November 2013) has changed the perceptions and anticipations about the forthcoming general elections to be held in 2014. It has also led to rethink about the equations of electoral politics in general. While BJP emerged (…)
, by BIDWAI Praful
That the Aam Aadmi Party represents something unprecedented in Indian politics is a truism. AAP is India’s first party since the JP movement of the 1970s to have evolved from a civil society mobilisation. It’s formally a regional party, but with unhidden national ambitions and a fast-growing (…)
, by CHATTOPADHYAY Kunal
Modi will uphold democracy, so please do not oppose him unless you want to be arrested
Narendra Modi has many admirers. They see him as the upholder of development, dignity, Hindutva, so many different things. And they are unwilling to hear any criticism of Modi. Anyone criticising Modi is (…)
, by PRAJAPATI Rohit, SHAH Trupti
We are caught in a false debate in which the reality is presented in an erroneous perception. Narendra Modi, the perpetrator of 2002 carnage is counter posed with Mr. Modi the “development leader”. We call it a false debate, since for us, who have lived and grown in Gujarat over the past five (…)
, by VISVANATHAN Shiv
POWER fascinates and when self-obsessive, it is even more fascinating. Subject to continuous churning, a dynamic sense of power has a magic few other processes possess. Narendra Modi is not just a man obsessed with power, but one who sees himself as a basic medium for it. Here is a Frankenstein (…)
, by CHANDRASEKHA C. P.
The UPA government is overemphasising reform-led growth that benefits a few and excludes the majority, arguing that it is important for national security.
INDIA’S beleaguered Prime Minister seems desperate to blame everybody else for the waning of India’s shining growth story and for the loss (…)
, by Liberation (India)
As Mamata Banerjee completes her first six months in office, the people of West Bengal now have a fairly good idea of the shape of things to come. In a systematic reversal of her poll promises, Mamata Banerjee has now launched a full-scale repressive campaign in Jangalmahal. The joint operation (…)
, by BAHUGUNA Raja
On November 9, 2000, when the state of Uttarakhand was formed, common people aspired that now, at last, development policies would be tailored to their needs. The plunder of jal-jangal-zameen would end, and new avenues of employment would be created. 11 years later, corruption and plunder are at (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
The encounter death of Kishenji, the CPI (Maoist) PB member, just a few days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was exhorting the “mediators” to continue “negotiations”, reminds people who are old enough, of the encounter deaths of the 1970s. It smacks of the hypocrisy involved in (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
In a shameful assault on democracy, the very next day after Independence Day, the Congress-UPA Government launched an offensive on citizens’ freedom, and arrested anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and others. Subsequently, a massive countrywide upsurge against this arrest and crackdown on (…)
, by PATNAIK Prabhat
The substitution of one man for the people, and the reduction of the people’s role merely to being supporters and cheerleaders for one man’s actions, is antithetical to democracy.
The Central government’s flip-flops on Anna Hazare are obvious: it went from abusing him (through the Congress (…)
, by ROY Arundhati
While his means maybe Gandhian, his demands are certainly not.
If what we’re watching on TV is indeed a revolution, then it has to be one of the more embarrassing and unintelligible ones of recent times. For now, whatever questions you may have about the Jan Lokpal Bill, here are the answers (…)
, by SUBRAMANIAN T. S.
Voters of Tamil Nadu give a massive mandate to the AIADMK-led alliance, rejecting outright the DMK and the Congress.
IT was a stunning victory that stood psephologists’ predictions on their heads. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary J. Jayalalithaa’s claim that (…)
, by KRISHNAKUMAR T.
The United Democratic Front just about crosses the half-way mark to assume power in Kerala.
RARELY has a ruling coalition in Kerala been so pleased about its electoral defeat; and, seldom has an opposition front been so miserable, in turn, about its victory. It was a beaming Chief Minister (…)
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