Since India is a parliamentary democracy, there is always the possibility of a party, precariously in power, seeking to consolidate its position by calling a ...
10:57 AM, Nov 09, 2012
They say I am powerful, They say I am eloquent, They say I am wealthy. Yet I am feeble, I do not believe, I ...
03:37 PM, Sep 23, 2012
If Arvind Kejriwal becomes MP in 2014 then it will a fresh start for 'Parliamentary Democracy'. All great political leaders are crying for Parliamentary Democracy ...
09:09 PM, Aug 26, 2012
The needle on my irony meter is quivering at 'maximum' as I write this post. A month ago Mamata Banerjee was upset about a cartoon ...
01:03 PM, Jun 17, 2012
Though Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, the BJD MP and chief advisor to Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, was at the helm of affairs in the BJD ...
11:25 AM, Jun 01, 2012
A regimen of disbelief When you attend any event surrounding B S Yeddyurappa, you'd be surprised by the stubborn disbelief over the fact that ...
06:52 PM, May 28, 2012
It was Friday the 13th in May last year - the day the whole of Tamil Nadu had been waiting for with hope and expecting ...
11:18 AM, May 15, 2012
It has been more than two months since the Maldivian island experienced political turmoil but the scars of the crisis still seem to run deep. ...
08:43 AM, May 11, 2012
'How can a mother of two leave behind her children and go to a bar to drink?' 'She is a divorcee, she drinks beer, ...
12:47 PM, Feb 18, 2012
It's election time in Uttar Pradesh. Mayawati is trying hard to get back to power. However, whenever I think of Maya, my thoughts go to ...
12:53 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Decoding amma, didi, behnji and madam. Respect the Trinamool Congress, or else, warns the Ma Durga of West Bengal. Accept that Tamil Nadu operates ...
08:56 AM, Jan 11, 2012
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Looking at the state of the Indian Union and the polity that governs it, one is prompted to dig Henry B Adams out of his ...
09:43 PM, Nov 28, 2011
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LK Advani has completed another mammoth countrywide yatra. Even though the current yatra may not have generated the kind of consistent hype in the national ...
12:42 PM, Nov 21, 2011
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At a time when Mayawati's Dalit memorials have sparked off a raging debate, it might be instructive to consider what the original Dalit icon, Dr ...
12:20 AM, Oct 21, 2011
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With so many political figures holed up in Tihar, the ones that are outside look pristine white, like the proverbial super-white shirt in a detergent ...
11:43 AM, Sep 26, 2011
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Narendra Modi's fast is the most misunderstood event of the year. This essay would like to argue that the fast has little connection with the ...
04:24 PM, Sep 19, 2011
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Narendra Modi is always in the news but news about Modi is always read differently by different people. The facts looked simple. The Supreme ...
05:51 PM, Sep 16, 2011
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Madam, "Action toh idhar hai, aap kahaan jaa rahe ho? (the action is here, where are you off to?" The security officer at the Delhi ...
06:52 PM, Sep 01, 2011
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In this monsoon of political turbulence, when should a minister resign from public office? A few years ago, I posed the question to former railway ...
12:13 AM, Jul 29, 2011
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If electoral deliverance and degree of popular support are taken to be the litmus test of performance in the context of democratic politics, there are ...
04:24 PM, May 20, 2011
