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January 4, 2018
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In the name of caste

Caste narratives expose inner fault-lines in our hierarchical society and can easily spark off controversy. Last week, when Jai Ram Thakur was selected as the BJP’s Himachal Pradesh chief...

December 21, 2017
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Gujarat Gives Congress Oxygen but Revival is Still A Challenge

In a movie-crazy country, election victories too often are projected in ‘filmi’ terms. So in response to my clichéd remark in the television studio on the BJP’s narrow victory...

December 19, 2017
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Gujarat: Urban-rural is split wide open

If there is any city that is seen to represent the public anger over demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax, it is Surat. Textile traders had shut shop...

December 7, 2017
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battle for Gujarat: BJP is winning election, losing narrative

It may be coincidental, but it is perhaps only appropriate that the Gujarat elections are being held in the week of the 25th anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition....

November 24, 2017
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Elections above parliament

In the winter of 1994 when I first moved to Delhi from Mumbai, the chance to cover Parliament was a major attraction. Entering Central Hall and gazing at the...

November 9, 2017
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The ‘Congress-ification’ of the BJP

The image was telling: Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad effusively welcoming the newly-inducted BJP member, Mukul Roy with flowers at the party headquarters. A former Trinamool Congress leader,...

October 27, 2017
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Dilli Dur Ast for Congress

As the seasons change, there is a spring in the step of the Congress which suggests that a long and harsh summer in the political wilderness maybe ending. Rahul...

October 24, 2017
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Remembering Sachin Tendulkar’s iconic Ranji Trophy debut

I had joined the Times of India in Mumbai in October 1988 and was struggling to find my young feet in the Old Lady of Boribunder. Having returned from...

October 24, 2017
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni is still not out

On his first foreign tour as an India A player to Kenya and Zimbabwe in July 2004, Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s roommate was the Delhi and India opening batsman Aakash...

October 22, 2017
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Cricket is about merit not dynasty

This is a problem in all our political parties. Akhilesh Yadav is a dynast. Stalin is a dynast… Even Abhishek Bachchan is a dynast… so are the Ambanis… Don’t...