POLITICS
Delhi Results | Elections in India can be fought and won on the development plank
The Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP will have to continue to deliver, the BJP will have to reassess its strategies and the Congress will have to wake up and smell the coffee.
POLITICS
Delhi Elections | Will its polarising pitch help BJP?
The BJP’s campaign messaging seems obsessively focused on Shaheen Bagh, and the unsubstantiated theories that it is orchestrated by the AAP and the Congress.
BUSINESS
Mumbai 24X7 | The move will help Mumbai become a maximum city
While the Uddhav Thackeray government deserves praise for understanding the commercial and economic significance of the proposal, it would do well to remember there are many challenges too.
POLITICS
Politics | Congress’ cacophonic concert continues
India needs a principal opposition party and if the Congress is claiming to be that, the least it can do is speak in one voice.
POLITICS
Politics | Why the bypoll victory in Karnataka was crucial for BJP
The Karnataka bypoll results are likely to embolden the BJP about its chances in trying to form the government in Maharashtra. Just like the Congress-JD(S) alliance fell apart in Karnataka, the BJP would now fancy its chances of detecting and exploiting the chinks in the Congress-NCP-Shiv Sena coalition government.
POLITICS
Pollution | It’s time we asked: What’s the point of all this development?
It is reassuring to see that when politicians have forsaken the people, the courts in India, including the Supreme Court, have taken up the cudgels.
POLITICS
Politics | The JNU protest illustrates the glaring socio-economic divide in India
Governments at the Centre have seldom been at ease with JNU because of its politically-active and socially-conscious student community.
POLITICS
Politics | Govt must focus on boosting Kashmir’s local economy, now
The stick has been used to good effect, it’s now time to use the carrot .
POLITICS
Assembly Election Results | Face-saver for Congress, embarrassment for BJP
The BJP is set to form the government in Maharashtra and with the help of other parties could even come back to power in Haryana, but the results are not what it expected. It's a wake-up call for the ruling party.
POLITICS
Politics | The assembly elections were a yawn
When almost every exit poll in Haryana and Maharashtra arrives at one conclusion, it’s safe to say that there wasn’t much of a contest. One didn’t really need psephology to say that the BJP will most likely form the next government.
POLITICS
Politics | Why is our self-confidence so brittle?
The Howdy Modi event in Houston was a successful political and diplomatic exercise. Should national pride be attached to it?
POLITICS
New Road Rules | Increased fines are a bitter pill India must swallow
If the government stays firm on its determination to go ahead with the amended traffic rules and if the traffic police implement these rules in the right earnest and in its true spirit, Indian roads will be much safer than what they are today.
POLITICS
Independence Day Speech | Modi is a man in a hurry, can India run with him?
If one were to roughly cut his Independence Day speech, for about 30 minutes Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about what his government had achieved; the remaining part of about an hour was what the government intends to achieve.
POLITICS
J&K and Article 370 | Narendra Modi and Amit Shah keep their promise; what next?
Those who agree with the government’s decision feel that it will usher in development, but those who are opposing this feel that the Modi government has opened a tinderbox.
POLITICS
Politics | Why so intolerant towards Adoor Gopalakrishnan?
If the BJP leadership wants to make its presence known in Kerala, there are numerous developmental, environmental and political issues that need attention — attacking a highly-respected intellectual is not the way.
POLITICS
Karnataka | With Congress-JD(S) farce over, can BJP form a stable govt?
For the sake of the people of Karnataka it is hoped that the new BJP-led government will be stable and complete the remaining term.
POLITICS
In Other Words | Everybody loves a fragile coalition government
It’s not clear whether the coalition in Karnataka will survive this scare; but, what’s clear is that coalition governments in future need to be prepared to tide over ‘resort politics’.
POLITICS
Offbeat | CBFC’s obdurate views are cutting children from the world around them
If a film which depicts violence in any form is deemed unfit for children, shouldn't there be an advisory against children reading newspapers!
POLITICS
Budget 2019 | The Har Ghar Jal scheme could be Modi’s ticket to 2024
If the focus on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan helped the BJP in 2019, expect the Har Ghar Jal scheme to do the same for the party in 2024.
INDIA
Economic Survey | Achieving economic progress through legal reforms
A well-oiled judicial system will ensure enforcing of contracts and resolution of disputes in a timely manner, and this in turn will further improve India’s Ease of Doing Business rank.
POLITICS
Politics | Will Rahul Gandhi’s resignation resuscitate the Congress?
No one in the Congress seems to want the top job. It talks volumes about the current state of the party, about the quality of leaders in the party and of how bad are the prospects of the party.
POLITICS
Politics | Rich Lok Sabha MPs in a poor India
Is India in danger of becoming a plutocracy? When increasingly a wealthy minority decide the policies that govern a poor majority, whose interests will it reflect?
POLITICS
Politics | The takeaways from Modi’s new Cabinet
If a map of India is taken and the Modi’s 57 ministers are geo-tagged to the constituency they represent, it would spread across the nation. This is a reflection of the BJP’s presence across India.
POLITICS
Politics | Will the BJP’s lotus bloom in Kerala?
The BJP has routed out the Congress across the nation. Ironically, it is the BJP and its style of campaigning that helped the Congress and the Congress-led UDF win 19 of the 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala.
