A Riot Waiting To Happen
This is the age of the rabble-rouser with social media amplifying the noise of the loudest voices. In Delhi, a marginal politician like Kapil Mishra has mastered the art...
Kejriwal for Delhi, but not for India yet
The emergence of Arvind Kejriwal has undoubtedly been the start-up story in Indian politics of the last decade just as the inexorable rise of Narendra Modi has been the...
MS University to JNU: Gujarat model goes national
Long before Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), there was Maharaja Sayajirao (MS) University, Vadodara. Named after one of the most enlightened rulers of princely India, the university was seen as...
The Angry Women of Shaheen Bagh
In normal times, Delhi’s Shaheen Baug area would be in danger of falling off the city map, a dingy, congested locality with open drains and dangerously dangling power cable...
CAA-NRC: Keeping the communal pot boiling
Union home minister Amit Shah has always worn his majoritarian outlook as a badge of pride. As a Gujarat MLA from Sarkhej – a Ahmedabad constituency with a large...
The Secret of Pawar Play
There are few Indian politicians as inscrutable as Sharad Pawar. The old political jungle saying in Mumbai is what ‘Pawar thinks, what he says and what he does, are...
What does 2019 mean for Indian politics?
India Today brings you special political debate based Rajdeep Sardesai’s book, ‘2019: How Modi Won India’. 2019 is a remarkable year in Indian politics, with Narendra Modi becoming the...
Neta Nagri: Pragya Thakur पर Amit Shah को क्या बोला था Arun Jaitley ने और Uddhav, Devendra और Ajit में झूठा कौन?
This week on Neta Nagri The Lallantop Editor Saurabh Dwivedi discussed Rajdeep Sardesai on Maharashtra government formation as Uddhav Thackeray finally formed government. The Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress...
The Limits of Militant Hindutva
It is not without irony that barely days after the long-pending Ayodhya verdict was delivered by the Supreme Court that the Shiv Sena broke its alliance with the BJP....