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Business of crying for media freedom
Earlier this month, along with two other journalists, I attended a conference on Media Freedom convened by the Foreign Ministers of Canada and the United Kingdom. It was a non-official delegation and was in no way representative of the diversity of India’s media — and I don’t think anyone claimed...
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Party hopping isn’t new but BJP should use caution
14 July 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Game-changing Budget precursor to New India
07 July 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Opp’s love for fringe agenda to help BJP
30 June 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
May should have quit at least a year ago
23 June 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
MPs must respect popular mandate to let House run
16 June 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
‘Contempt’ set to disrupt creation of Modi’s India
09 June 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta -
Congress future hinges on Modi’s performance
02 June 2019 | Swapan Dasgupta
Anti-Modi intellectual elite fights for survival
It is bad form to focus on the losers after an election that has produced a clear winner. Yet, this election was rather strange in many respects. And it is the oddities that need some casual attention. At one level there was the BJP, blessed by a leader that had all-round...
EC must make poll sanctity foolproof
By Sunday evening, the excruciatingly long general election of 2019 will have come to an end. By the afternoon of May 23, the country will digest the results and slowly come to terms with the overall verdict. In the interregnum there will be the exit polls and a dissection of the...
May 23 will prove if Opp gambit worked
An excruciatingly long election campaign, coupled with the scorching summer heat, invariably results in fatigue and weariness. As the country approaches the final two rounds of voting, this is becoming painfully apparent. At this stage of the campaign, the leading players have more or less said their lines, positioned their...
India needs to address hostile Western media
In the summer of 2014, the influential British weekly The Economist — also read by a section of India’s decision-makers — created a minor flutter by endorsing the Congress. Actually, more than being enthusiastic about the UPA-II that had completed an uninspiring five years, the magazine was outrightly disapproving of...
Cong has given up battle against Modi
It was five years ago that I was in Varanasi for Narendra Modi’s roadshow before he filed his nomination for his first Lok Sabha election. It was a spectacular show that very hot April morning, perhaps as exhilarating as the grand assertion of popularity last Thursday afternoon. The pedants can...
Festival of democracy must not be vipassana
There are many conflicting views of the role being played by social media in 2019 general election. For many politicians, and not necessarily those confined to a particular age group, social media is a strange and unfamiliar beast that distracts from the ‘real’ campaign-meeting and speaking to people. Mercifully, this...
2019 LS elections polarised on Modi
In this year’s election, the Central issue is PM Modi. In many respects, the election is turning out to be a referendum on him. People either like what they have seen of him over the past five years or they dislike him. I have hardly met anyone who is ambivalent...
