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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…

Congress’s Make or Break Election

Defeat in sport can be dispiriting and contagious. In the 1980s, most teams lost to…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Test’ Now

For four years and a bit, every time there has been a major state election,…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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Vajpayee was the torchbearer of a gentler political era

Of the many stories of Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s remarkable ability to win friends and influence…