The Modi-Rahul face off is good democracy The forthcoming electoral contest of 2014 is fast passing into pop culture. The Battle of the "Bachelors" ...
07:04 AM, Apr 10, 2013
India's two main national parties are facing distinctly contrarian leadership dilemmas: while the BJP is confronted with managing the vaulting ambitions of its multiple leaders, ...
12:04 AM, Mar 22, 2013
It is not without reason that the BJP in recent times has been referred to as the 'Hindu Divided Family'. Impressed by the speech given ...
12:05 AM, Mar 08, 2013
The controversy generated over the invite extended to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to address the India Economic Forum at The Wharton School of the ...
06:57 PM, Mar 05, 2013
There is nothing journalists and the viewers love more than a 'big fight'. A Roger Federer is a great tennis player, but the legend is ...
12:15 AM, Jan 25, 2013
So Modi has indeed vanquished all threats and odds to score a resounding win, proving that pro-incumbency can beat anti-incumbency! The 2012 Gujarat elections ...
11:21 AM, Dec 21, 2012
There is a Goliath called Modi looming over the state of Gujarat, in real life as well as in 3-D, who is once again poised ...
12:59 AM, Dec 19, 2012
Travelling into Gujarat during election time is like entering the kingdom of an absolute monarch. Never before has a state election been so completely dominated ...
12:14 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Muslims are seeking a new narrative in Gujarat beyond victimhood The land of historic Gandhian satyagrahas like Kheda, Bardoli and the Dandi March, Gujarat ...
08:37 AM, Dec 12, 2012
The debates surrounding Gujarat has in the last decade revolved perhaps a little too much around Narendra Modi. His followers have tried to portray him ...
03:37 PM, Dec 07, 2012
It's interesting how most recent political developments are building up towards a scenario, where much like the ongoing Gujarat elections, even the 2014 LS elections ...
12:45 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Two decades is almost a third of the journey that independent India has covered since 1947. It's been a long journey, chequered with events that ...
12:39 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Predicting elections can be injurious to the health of journalists and pollsters, more so when there is still a month to go before voting. Even ...
12:10 AM, Nov 16, 2012
It's open season on 'modern' women A fashionable cultural conservatism dominates a land in the throes of the seismic shocks of liberalisation and westernisation. ...
09:31 AM, Nov 09, 2012
Shock rhetoric is an innate attribute of the beast of politics. In campaigns under the 24 hour media scanner, they do a great deal to ...
12:10 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Ever since India started liberalising its economy in 1991, there has been a palpable change in the lives of the 350 million odd upper and ...
04:16 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Before a major heavyweight boxing title bout, there are sideshows on the day's entertainment. Call it a teaser or a trailer, the aim is to ...
12:02 AM, Jun 29, 2012
Narendra Modi always hogs the headlines and always generates sharp responses of two kinds. One from the people who believe Modi is the future of ...
05:52 PM, Apr 25, 2012
There can be little doubt that Gujarat is India's dragon state. The past decade has been the best since Gujarat became a state in 1960. ...
02:22 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Has Gujarat really moved on ten years after the terrible violence of 2002? The answer depends on who the question is asked to. Chief minister ...
12:31 AM, Feb 24, 2012
