Centre Versus States: The Battle Within
One of Narendra Modi’s most striking achievements when he first came to power at the Centre in 2014 was just how easily he seemed to make the transition from...
Congress Must break with Past to Build New future
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” That famous quote erroneously attributed to renowned physicist Albert Einstein might well typify the state...
Private Life of Rahul Gandhi
A video of around 12 seconds is put out on twitter on Tuesday morning by the BJP’s hyper active social media chief, Amit Malviya of Rahul Gandhi partying at...
All in the Family
For years now, the strongest critique that the BJP has had against the Congress and several regional parties is that they are family run fiefdoms, the parties of ‘Shehzadas’.
Hindutva versus Hinduism: Rahul-Khurshid Line Divides and Distracts
In this age of social media outrage, prime time noise and WhatsApp forwards, every word spoken or written in the public domain travels across the universe in real time...
The Rahul versus Mamata versus Arvind battle
It is argued, often justifiably, that a large section of the news media, especially prime time tv, spends far more time and energy questioning the opposition than it does...
Marg – Darshak Mandal Politics: Getting Netas to Retire is not easy
“Retire when people ask why and not when they ask why not..” That memorable quote is attributed to cricketing great Vijay Merchant who called it a day after scoring...
Rahul Gandhi should form his own party or opt out
Dumping on Rahul Gandhi has become a fashion: while his BJP opponents have ‘Pappu-fied’ him as an incompetent leader, many of his Congress colleagues in private hold him responsible...
Crazy Kiya Re: ‘new’ India in crazy times
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of ...