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By Anjan Roy We are hearing about creating a New India or Naya Bharat. From the Prime Minister to political parties we are hearing about plans and programmes for creating this New India. But a New India is already emerging, independently of governments and agencies, out...
By Aditya Aamir Check posts, cellphone call jammers and facial geometric cameras on the one side. On the other, the BJP caught contemptuously dismissing the Hindu horde as “stupid devotees” to take advantage of their blind faith, fair game. The BJP admission caught on tape! A snatch of...
By Nantoo Banerjee Poor Reserve Bank of India governor Urjit Patel! Only two years ago, soft-spoken Patel appeared to be the government’s ‘perfect’ choice for the job. It was more so after the NDA government found it increasingly difficult to deal with his more combative predecessor, Raghuram Rajan,...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: “First I was asked to resign from the chief minister ship, then I was ousted from the Cabinet and now I am denied party ticket. I have won from Govindpura ten times with huge margin, twice highest in the state; I have been...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP-RSS’s sinister game-plan to create a martyr on the Sabarimala issue and milk it to gain rich political and electoral rewards ended in fiasco, forcing embarrassed leaders of the saffron brigade to run for cover. The BJP even called a hartal in...
By Aditya Aamir The first rule of finding a solution is to be educated and not emotional about the problem. But it is hard when people are yelling in your face and getting physical. Well, not today or tomorrow, but say in two weeks’ time, when one ‘R’...
By K Raveendran When Congressman Kapil Sibal, claiming to represent the Sunni Waqf Board in the Ayodhya Ramjanmabhoomi title dispute, sought to put pressure on the three-man bench headed by the then chief justice Dipak Mishra last year to delay hearing of the case until after the 2019...
By Conn Hallinan The news that the U.S. recently held face-to-face talks with the Taliban suggests that the longest war in U.S. history may have reached a turning point, although the road to such a peace is long, rocky, and plagued with as many improvised explosive devices as...
By Harihar Swarup The voters’ mood and the poll-surveys in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh reveal that people have been inclining more towards the Congress and Mayawati’s BSP is no factor. The picture in Chhattisgarh is not clear with rebel Congress leader and former Chief Minister, Ajit Jogi,...
By Nitya Chakraborty Congress President Rahul Gandhi is making a strategic mistake in his campaigning and press conferences in the recent days by focusing only on Rafale scam and Anil Ambani. Rahul is absolutely right in targeting the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of Rafale deal...