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September 16, 2016
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AAP at the crossroads

Writing obituaries of political parties can be a hazardous business. In July 2014, an international publication invited me to write an article on the political demise of AAP. This...

September 9, 2016
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Measuring Democracy: TV and polling in India

“So why should we be paying so much if we cant get the exact number of seats right?” the news media baron asked imperiously. The Delhi election results had...

September 2, 2016
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Pakistan is neither heaven nor hell

At a time when actor-politician Ramya has bizarrely had a sedition case filed against her for claiming “Pakistan is not hell”, let me test the waters of sedition by...

August 19, 2016
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Dil maange More: a sports revolution

Kheloge kudoge to hoge kharab, padhoge likhoge to banoge nawab (if you play, you will be wasting your life, but if you study you will be a king). That...

August 4, 2016
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Gau Rakshaks are Anti Dalit: why BJP should worry

One of the lesser known facts perhaps of the 2002 Gujarat riots is that Dalits were at the fore of much of the violence against Muslims in Ahmedabad. When...

July 22, 2016
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25 years of Manmohanomics: Thank you Doc!

“I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament”: Manmohan Singh in January 2014 announcing...

July 8, 2016
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Don’t write off Smriti Irani

Life on Twitter can be nasty, brutish and short. Which is perhaps why within moments of the news breaking that Smriti Irani had been shifted out of the HRD...

June 24, 2016
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The Muck Of Indian Politics

History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce, but in Indian politics, the farce plays out so frequently that the tragic element is obscured. Four recent instances highlight...

June 10, 2016
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In Maharashtra, and arguably across the country, the state is increasingly identified with real estate. Former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan tells a story of how passing any legislation...

June 4, 2016
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The Greatest

I never saw Muhammad Ali fight on television, never saw his great fights with Joe Frazier on live tv. We didn’t have multiple sports channels in the 1970s to...