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Sena-Cong sham marriage unlikely
It is my hunch that the present stand-off involving the BJP and its alliance partner Shiv Sena will be resolved if not within the next few days but before the end of November. Of course I may be wrong and we could see the unlikeliest of all coalitions that includes...
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Poll results postmortem abetted by exit poll josh
27 October 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Bapu’s disrespect in UK is insult to India
20 October 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Mortifying silence on Murshidabad murders
13 October 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Cong’s mock indignation at FIR against celebrities
06 October 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Love for sensationalism is assault on journalism
29 September 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Babul episode warrants guidelines for varsities
22 September 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
India looks beyond British Raj excesses
15 September 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta
India’s space odyssey must go on with zeal
It is not merely success that tests the national resolve. How a nation copes with disappointments is an equal measure. In the early hours of Saturday, India was confronted with the disappointing news of the inability of the Chandrayaan mission to complete the final stage of its difficult mission. There was...
Pack of hyenas hunting for even minor slips of Modi
Last week’s 12-hour excitement over a High Court judge who had apparently dubbed Tolstoy’s classic War and Peace as potentially subversive literature, unworthy of being found in the bookshelves of decent, law-abiding citizens, was more than just a silly diversion. In the short time before the whole reportage was shown...
Modi’s historic change in diaspora outreach
Howdy Modi” may seem an exceptionally strange way of addressing India’s Prime Minister, except perhaps in Texas. Fortunately, it was an event in Houston, Texas, that billed a diaspora outreach programme of Narendra Modi in this fashion. The labelling, however, is secondary. What is more relevant is that, having done a...
Western media feeds on demonisation of Modi
There has been a fair amount of outrage over the disruption of India’s Independence Day celebrations in London by a demonstration of Pakistani Kashmiris and a handful of Khalistanis. The outrage is warranted, and more so in the light of the BBC’s predictably one-sided coverage of the event in Central...
Modi can’t be deterred by communal blackmail
The initial excitement over the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir and the reorganisation of the State has given way to a more considered assessment of its implications, both domestically and externally. While there is a cautious wait-and-watch approach to how the Kashmir Valley will react once the...
Opp fails to stall Modi’s political agenda in RS
When the Parliament session concludes on August 7 (or, as is being speculated, is further extended by another two days), the Narendra Modi Government will have the satisfaction of having completed the most productive Budget-cum-monsoon session. I doubt if any other Parliament session in recent memory — or, indeed, ever...
RTI Act needs more changes for efficacy
Last week, following its passage in the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha approved the amendment to the Right to Information Act. A determined attempt — a very legitimate parliamentary tactic — by the Opposition to refer the amendment to a Select Committee failed following a division. The NDA Government that...
