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Farm protest aim is to put Modi Govt on back foot
The ongoing agitation is an instrument to put the Modi Government on the back foot. The calculation is that if Modi steps back, it will have a knock-on effect and reduce the Government’s appetite for future reforms. And, if the reforms are halted, the Modi Government will lose its momentum...
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BJP’s challenges in Bengal turf war
20 December 2020 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Media’s influence on voting pick minimal
13 December 2020 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Trudeau barbs: Vote bank compulsions
06 December 2020 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Constitution sacred, but Bharat Mata more sacred
26 January 2020 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Govt must let Shaheen Bagh protest peter out
19 January 2020 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Anti-CAA protests aim to influence SC verdict
05 January 2020 | Swapan Dasgupta -
CAA stir unlikely to be larger satyagraha
29 December 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta
Bottled up feeling triggered CAA stir
Triple talaq, Article 370, apex court verdict for construction of Ram temple among other issues have triggered this explosion The term ‘tyranny of distance’ has come to define what is peddled as news, what is regarded as important and what is relegated to a footnote. In simple terms, it means that...
Citizenship Act is not discriminatory
For the past three years, various British friends have insisted that the pro-Brexit outcome of the referendum in 2016 was a freaky aberration and born out of voter ignorance. The professional middle class consensus, particularly in London, was that once the full implications of the decision of the United Kingdom...
CAB not regressive, it’ll heal Partition wounds
One of the more interesting features of modern society —at least since the advent of instant, global communications — is the fleeting collective attention span of people. The tendency to jump from subject to subject or, rather, controversy to controversy, has distorted public discourse immeasurably and made it extremely difficult...
Aghadi a Band-Aid solution for Maha
A few years ago, and certainly a decade or so ago, it would have been unimaginable for the swearing-in of a Shiv Sena Chief Minister at Shivaji Park, Mumbai, to have passed off without even a hint of controversy. Never mind controversy, the installation of Uddhav Thackeray as the leader...
BJP’s exacting work in Maha to have overarching effects
In many ways the proposed grand alliance involving the NCP-Congress alliance on the one hand and the Shiv Sena on the other in Maharashtra may have reminded some people — at least those who care to be interested in history — of the infamous (but woefully short-lived) Hitler-Stalin pact of...
Diplomacy key to India-Lanka ties
By the time this column appears, the trends, if not the results, of Sri Lanka’s presidential election should be known. It is always hazardous to anticipate the outcome of an election since voters are often — though not always —inclined to defy conventional wisdom and opinion polls. Not that the...
Inability to join RCEP a lesson
If political reactions are anything to go by, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to keep India out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership — a grouping that is set to become the world’s largest trading bloc, outpacing even the European Union — was greeted with a measure of relief in...
