Dark side of Gujarat Model
The much-trumpeted ‘Gujarat model’ is in a mess in corona times. Consider the following: Not only does Gujarat have amongst the highest number of corona virus cases in the...
Compassion with Coercion: Leadership in age of corona
It is perhaps a less known fact that Narendra Modi’s political career was dramatically transformed by a natural disaster. The alleged mishandling of relief operations during the 2001 Kutch...
The Corona Challenge is about Team India not Brand Modi
In the build up to the 2019 general elections, the BJP’s most potent campaign plank was to pose a direct question: ‘Modi versus who?’. By foregrounding the leadership issue,...
Kejriwal for Delhi, but not for India yet
The emergence of Arvind Kejriwal has undoubtedly been the start-up story in Indian politics of the last decade just as the inexorable rise of Narendra Modi has been the...
MS University to JNU: Gujarat model goes national
Long before Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), there was Maharaja Sayajirao (MS) University, Vadodara. Named after one of the most enlightened rulers of princely India, the university was seen as...
The Secret of Pawar Play
There are few Indian politicians as inscrutable as Sharad Pawar. The old political jungle saying in Mumbai is what ‘Pawar thinks, what he says and what he does, are...
What does 2019 mean for Indian politics?
India Today brings you special political debate based Rajdeep Sardesai’s book, ‘2019: How Modi Won India’. 2019 is a remarkable year in Indian politics, with Narendra Modi becoming the...
It’s the Opposition, stupid!
So here is the paradox of our times. Read the business pages, and there is a fair chance that you will get the impression of a Narendra Modi government...
There is Fadnavis Only
A curious election littered with many firsts is taking place in Maharashtra. A 49 year old Brahmin from Nagpur appears set to be re-elected for a second five year...
Neta Nagri: 100 Days of Modi Government
The Lallantop Editor Saurabh Dwivedi in conversation with Senior Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai. This week on Neta Nagri we discuss Narendra Modi government’s announcements for cow livestock vaccination scheme in...