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On May 16th last year, it became clear towards the afternoon that the Congress would not even reach the fifty seat mark. One of Times Now’s panellists analysing the elections made ...

The term dictatorship is freely used these days in the national political discourse. Rahul Gandhi and his family feel that Narendra Modi is a tyrant who wants to subvert India's democracy. Arvind ...

With elections in Bihar around the corner, the national political scene has come to life. The stakes for this edition of the Bihar elections are unusually high, higher than they have ...

A historical primer: The year 1975 saw the imposition of Emergency, a highly unpopular decision of the then Congress Govt. that was criticized by many as being contrarian to democratic principles. ...

I'm going to start this article with a controversial statement: Neutrality, of any kind, is overrated. It does not exist, and anybody claiming to maintain equipoise in all matters of importance, ...

Lord Arvind Kejriwal speaks to his devotees, perched on a platform. He towers over his worshipers and names the corrupt-the scum of Indian politics. The corrupt, who must be hounded and ...

Delhi is not a full state. Delhi is not a half state either. Delhi is not even a quasi-state. Delhi is just a centrally administered territory with its own Chief Minister ...

Indian National Congress ka haath- Gandhi ke saath! For 60 years, Indian National Congress has deftly managed public opinion and managed to cling to power in a cacophonous democracy like India. ...

Justice,equality,emancipation,belief-somewhere my life gets dull and lambasted when such heavy utopian phrases scribe in the air. For long, India has bragged of its stance of being the world’s largest democracy. The ...

Imagine having planned to watch a film in the weekend and it is quietly pulled away from the theater, because the state doesn’t want it to be screened. Or imagine listening ...

"Those who dare to show us their eyes will have them gouged and thrown on the streets. If someone shows us their hands we will cut them off,” said Abhishek Banerjee, ...

I briefly recall my meeting with a Kashmiri in Delhi Metro about 5 years back. He openly expressed his repugnance about the Indian army. His parting words were “remember those may ...