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In the winter of 1994 when I first moved to Delhi from Mumbai, the chance…
The image was telling: Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad effusively welcoming the newly-inducted BJP…
As the seasons change, there is a spring in the step of the Congress which…
I had joined the Times of India in Mumbai in October 1988 and was struggling…
On his first foreign tour as an India A player to Kenya and Zimbabwe in…
This is a problem in all our political parties. Akhilesh Yadav is a dynast. Stalin…
Last Tuesday, the government of India seemed to temporarily shift its base to the BJP headquarters at Delhi’s Ashoka Road. A string of high profile Union ministers queued up for television interviews to protest Left violence against RSS cadres in Kerala. Forget economic slowdown, jobs, GST, Rohingyas or Kashmir: for a few hours at least, the BJP’s high-decibel Jan Raksha Yatra across Kerala took precedence, as the lines between party and government were blurred.
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s great skills is the ability to change the media…
The year 1993 was Mumbai’s annus horribilis: The post-Babri demolition riots were followed by the…
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s great skills as a political communicator has been his…
