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2024 isn’t yet Modi Vs Mamta : We make the same mistake election after election. No 2 elections are the same. Mamta won Bengal because she was the unchallenged local didi. A general election will be different. Remember how the Cong won state elections in November 2018 and yet was smashed in those very states in 2019?
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27 years ago, I moved to Delhi from Mumbai.. 1994 it was.. the previous 18 months covering the Mumbai riots and blasts had scared me and I wanted to move out of the city.. I also wanted a larger canvas as a political reporter.. so Delhi it was.. from a professional and personal point of view, I haven’t regretted the move.
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A few days ago, a well known politician sent me a whatsapp message: ‘are you seeing the pictures at the Kumbh Mela in Hardwar, no masks, no social distancing, I mean isn’t it insane what’s going on!’ I promptly replied in agreement and asked the neta, “why don’t you come on my show and speak up!’. The politician replied with a ‘smiley’ image and said, “I’d love to, but you know how it is!” I felt like replying, “no, I don’t know how it is!”.. but actually I do know how it is.
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‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…’ : Charles Dickens in Tale of Two Cities.
The author’s reflections on Britain in the mid nineteenth century now echo in 21st century India, trapped as we are in our own Dickensian moment. If 2020 was the year of doom and gloom, 2021 is where hope alternates with despair in surreal discomfort. Early year optimism that the worst was over has descended into deepening concerns over a ‘second’ Corona wave.
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This is election season in India and I want to raise a contentious issue by posing a simple direct question: is the Election Commission a neutral umpire or is it the 12th man for the party in power? This is an issue that might raise hackles: am I casting aspersions on the independence and autonomy of the commission. Well, yes and no. No, I have great respect for the institution of the election commission but Yes, I intend to question whether the commission has been de-fanged in recent times and rendered toothless.
