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May 11, 2017
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Tale of Two Daughters of India

This is the story of two daughters of India, both victims of horrific sexual crimes. Jyoti Singh was a bright 23-year-old, dreaming of a career in medicine that would...

April 28, 2017
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AAP and the end of Hope

On the day the exit polls for the Delhi municipal elections were predicting a BJP landslide, AAP spokespersons were in a defiant mood, blaming the EVMs for a looming...

April 14, 2017
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Cow politics: Mahatma’s India vs Bhagwat’s Hindu Rashtra

There are many joys of living in Goa, but its gastronomic pluralism is easily one of the tiny state’s biggest attractions. On the day that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat...

April 10, 2017
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TV news is in a crisis: Chapalgaonkar memorial lecture

Dear friends, members of the Chapalgaonkar family and fellow journalists of Pune, It is a great honour for me to be speaking at the Venkatesh Chapalgaonkar Memorial Lecture here...

March 30, 2017
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When ‘fringe’ becomes Mainstream: Hindu vote bank has arrived

One of the more intriguing narratives being spun after the appointment of Yogi Adityanath as the new Uttar Pradesh chief minister is to liken his rise to Narendra Modi....

March 17, 2017
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Can opposition take on Modi in 2019?

In the aftermath of the 2014 general election debacle, I asked a senior Congressman how his party would now battle the Narendra Modi juggernaut. “Not to worry, we have...

March 12, 2017
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Modi 24 X 7, 365 days

In the final leg of the 2014 general elections, Narendra Modi dramatically announced in a rally, “Yeh dil maange more”. It was a quintessential Modi soundbite: the BJP’s internal...

March 2, 2017
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Lotus could bloom in UP

Predicting the outcome of an Uttar Pradesh election can be injurious to health. In 1993, extensively covering a UP election for the first time, when my editor asked me...

February 17, 2017
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The UP Muslim ‘vote bank’ predicament

The complicated and controversial notion of a Muslim vote bank stretches back to the first general elections in 1952. The post-Partition face of the Indian Muslims, Maulana Azad, was...

February 3, 2017
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Congress will remain a C team player

Five years is an eternity in Indian politics. As Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav beamed beatifically into the cameras last weekend, the mind was thrown back to 2012 when...