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December 20, 2018
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Why BJP should worry, not be in denial

In 2004, a few weeks before the general elections and a day after the Lucknow stampede in which 21 poor women were killed while collecting free saris, then prime...

December 12, 2018
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The Five State Election: Ten Takeaways..

1) In electoral politics, no one is invincible, not even self styled Bahubalis and political Chanakyas. And yet, such has been the aura around the Modi-Shah duo that a...

December 6, 2018
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Congress’s Make or Break Election

Defeat in sport can be dispiriting and contagious. In the 1980s, most teams lost to the great West Indian side even before they reached the pitch out of sheer...

November 21, 2018
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No Ram or Rafale, the Rozi Roti election in MP

In the age of T-20 style elections — instant opinion, shoot and scoot polls and parachute reporting — it is increasingly difficult to confidently predict an Indian election outcome....

November 7, 2018
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DeMo@2: What’s to ‘celebrate’?

For a government which has mastered the art of event management and never missed an opportunity to ‘celebrate’ a slew of anniversaries, there has been a markedly muted response...

October 25, 2018
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CBI’s ‘War’: Gujarat Model comes to Delhi

In the 70 mm cacophonic build up to the 2014 general elections, a recurring theme was the hype around the so-called ‘Gujarat model’. The BJP’s narrative through the campaign...

October 10, 2018
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Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Test’ Now

For four years and a bit, every time there has been a major state election, the dominant narrative is to call it a ‘test’ for prime minister Narendra Modi...

September 27, 2018
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Is Modi government being unnerved by Rafale ‘war’?

Politics in the media age is increasingly about perception management which in turn is about shaping the narrative to your advantage. The UPA 2 government lost the plot when...

September 13, 2018
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Kaamdar vs Naamdar: is Cong falling into a BJP trap?

One of the more persistent criticisms against the Narendra Modi government has been that far too many of its ministers seem to have very little work to do and...

August 30, 2018
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Will Rafale 2019 be Bofors 1989?

Rahul Gandhi was just seventeen years old when the Bofors gun payoff scandal first exploded, a corruption charge that would tar his father Rajiv Gandhi’s reputation and eventually push...