Rajnath Singh, Sonia Gandhi and the battle of secularism
Rajnath Singh, Sonia Gandhi and the battle of secularism If day 1 of the Parliament is anything to go by, the winter session is bound to be an interesting one again. If ...
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Parliament’ s Winter Session: Look at what’s on the table
So Bihar boomeranged on BJP. But before the party's strategists can take stock properly, its government at the Centre has its task cut out. Parliament' s Winter Session starts on ...
The voteshare/seats conundrum: A case for Mixed-Member Proportional System?
The bizarre counting exercise for Bihar perpetuated by many media houses on the 8th of November might have seen many twists and turns, but at the end of it all, it ...
K M Mani: The Fall of a Political Behemoth
“The mightier they are, the harder they fall”. This idiom rings true to the core in the case of K M Mani, the doyen of Kerala politics. One of the most ...
Kiren Rijiju, Nehru and the great betrayal
Kiren Rijiju, Nehru and the great betrayal of '62 Kiren Rijiju stirred a hornet's nest recently when he claimed that Nehru had given up Assam to the Chinese during the '62 ...
Influx of illegal Bangladeshi migrants and Hazarika commission report
2047, Assam's indigenous population will be a minority, indicates a report submitted by the Hazarika commission to the Supreme Court; thanks to the massive influx of the Bangladeshi population. Hazarika commission ...
Jayaprakash Narayan – Rejected by Old School Communists, Ridiculed by New School Socialists
Name: Jayaprakash Narayan Birth Date: October 11, 1902 Death Date: October 8, 1979 Place of Birth: Sitabdiara , Saran District, Bihar, India Place of Death: Patna, India While the story ...
Why Somnath Bharti isn’t the only embarrassment of AAP?
In a recent development Somnath Bharti’s anticipatory bail plea had been rejected by Delhi High Court. Justice Suresh Kait of the Delhi high court declined to grant the former Delhi law ...
Ban, Religion and Inequality
As #bantheban banters the intelligentsia, the cause of pluralism and the idea of secularism faces quite an uphill task. On one hand, there is resilience, on the other hand there is ...
Marathi Regionalism- A case of misplaced pride or Language under threat?
Marathi language cause, casually dubbed as "Marathi regionalism", erupts on the national scene from time to time. This time, it has returned to the fore with a controversy that auto rickshaw ...
Is Lalu Prasad Yadav intentionally sabotaging Nitish Kumar’s chances in this elections? PART 2
In the first part of this coverage, we went through the political profiles of Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar and the situations under which these so called ...
The Marichjhapi Massacre- West Bengal’s well guarded shame?
They say Gods dwell within little kids. That morning when someone shared the image of Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body, it had taken my peace away. What was his crime? He ...
