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Shashi Tharoor’s book on Modi is a wasted opportunity

A sense of history can easily be the casualty in times when tweets running out of characters make way for newspaper op-eds, and books emerge from op-eds running out of space. Any exercise in sizing up our times and its key figures has to tame a few disadvantages if it…

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Murders in the sewer pits: Voices from the Jantar Mantar protest

“They offered him five hundred rupees and made him enter the sewer,” recalls Suraj Kala. Her 22-year-old son, Armaan, entered the sewer and never returned. “He was given no safety gear,” she says. A resident of Ludhiana, in Punjab, Suraj Kala along with other families, who have lost their loved…

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Does the Modi government have the legitimacy to run the government anymore?

Read the first part of how the Modi Government systematically made Parliament irrelevant here.

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How the AAP-LG tussle is uniting the Opposition against the BJP

The tremors of a political earthquake in the national capital are spreading fast across the country. The support to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s dharna at the Lieutenant Governor’s house from the Opposition parties or the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party front is swelling with every passing day.

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Why BJP’s ‘Saaf Niyat, Sahi Vikas’ is an example of bad branding

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The new Babu in an exam-loving nation

There is an interesting conversation at the beginning of 1988 classic English, August, the debut novel by 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Upamanyu Chatterjee. The novel begins with a chat in a car between young IAS probationer Agastya Sen and his Yale-alumnus friend Dhrubo.

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Bharatiya Janata Party’s GDP Jumla

The latest set of gross domestic product (GDP) numbers were released yesterday.

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Past imperfect

Last week, Narendra Modi came under public scrutiny: after his claim that no Congress leader visited Bhagat Singh while he was in jail was debunked. While the readers of publications like Alt News and Boom enjoy the advantage of a team of fact checkers, the electorate being addressed by the…

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Chandrababu Naidu’s saga of political flip-flops

Nara Chandrababu Naidu, supremo of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has done it again. His political heel is flexible enough that it can rotate 360 degrees. His political ideology is malleable and ductile. It takes the shape of the container, at his will.

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As India, Pak duel over Gurez dam, a village in Kashmir longs for electricity

The spectacular Gurez valley lies secluded in the upper reaches of the Himalaya, tucked between the northern stretch of Kashmir, 123 km from Srinagar, and Pakistan’s southern horizon. When you tell the locals how beautiful it is, the common response is: “Oh, but you don’t want to be here in the winters.”

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Voters in Kairana don’t care about Jinnah’s portrait: RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary

The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) is fighting a battle of survival in Uttar Pradesh, and Monday’s Kairana bypoll seems its best shot to stay on the political scene ahead of the 2019 general elections.

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Social media wars: Will resurgent Congress trump complacent BJP in 2019?

A lot has changed between 2014 and 2018 in how India’s two major parties—the Congress and the BJP—work their social media ‘capabilities and handling’.

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Irani, Queen of Controversy and Quarrel

So, what can Irani do to stay relevant and on top of the political sweepstakes with just the low-profile Textile Ministry in her charge? Remember the last time when she was sacked as HRD minister? Irani grabbed eyeballs, that too in the midst of an all-important BJP party leadership meeting…

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Revealed: How the Congress-JDS deal was cracked

It was sometime late on Sunday that contact was first established between New Delhi and Malleswaram. This neighbourhood in the north-western part of Bengaluru is where the Janata Dal (Secular) patriarch, HD Deve Gowda, lives. The Congress had reached out to him because by then, a day after voting on…

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Why Sunanda Pushkar’s death hasn’t got any less mysterious

Sunanda Pushkar’s death is a “case of suicide”, according to the chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police on Monday. It took the cops years to conclude that it was not a “murder”.

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Jo Haara, Wahi Siddaramaiah

Chamundeshwari did not allow Siddaramaiah a last hurrah. The chief minister lost the election to his former poll manager, GT Deve Gowda.

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Six ways Rahul Gandhi can get Congress ready for 2019

In an electric 24 hours, the newly-minted Congress President Rahul Gandhi can go from being a Pappu to Sheru, or plunge the depths again, depending on the results of the Assembly election in Karnataka—an electoral battle that has significant ramifications in the run-up to the general election in 2019.

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‘I am an Indian, a Kannadiga and a Lingayat,’ says Kalburgi’s son

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah have been alleging that those behind the Lingayat movement in Karnataka are trying to create a divide in the Hindu community.

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#KarnatakaElections: How will the state’s mutts influence voters?

It is not news when Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah visits a temple or seeks benediction from the head of a mutt. But when Congress leaders do so, it raises eyebrows. According to a Congress leader, party president Rahul Gandhi and chief minister…

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Why #WuhanSummit is path-breaking

National power is defined as the ability of a nation to attain its strategic objectives by directed action. National power is no longer restricted to the military but also includes a multiplicity of factors such as strength of the economy, human resources, availability of national resources, knowledge and science and…

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Can opposition stand up to Modi in 2019?

The talk of alternative political alignments is in the air. With the BJP failing on most fronts and moving more towards aggressive Hindutva, all anti-BJP forces and even some erstwhile BJP leaders and allies are scouting for alternative formations to take on the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah combine.

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#WorldPressFreedomDay: How free is India’s ‘free press’?

Every year, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an international non-profit, publishes a report on freedom of the press around the world. And for the second consecutive year, India has slipped in the rankings.

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‘We can’t separate Reddy and Sriramulu,’ says Udupi MP Shobha Karandlaje

It took two days of persuasion for Udupi Member of Parliament and Bharatiya Janata Party Karnataka secretary Shobha Karandlaje to agree to speak to Newslaundry. In the course of the conversation, she accused incumbent Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of being power hungry. Karandlaje also defended jailbird Janardhan Reddy’s move to campaign…

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So, what were the real reasons for the cash crunch?

“Nobody knows, nobody knows, how the elephant blows his nose. Does he do a-tishoo on a tissue? Or does he simply wipe it on his toes? Nobody knows, nobody knows.”

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TV Newsance Episode 16: Modi Ki Baat, Modi Ke Saath

There’s news, there’s sense and there’s nuisance. This show is all about that last bit. Kyunki thoda pagalpan bhi zaroori hai. This week, Narendra Modi met Prasoon Joshi and it got Rahul Shivshankar of Times Now a little too excited. Shivshankar was bowled over by how ‘unprecedented’, ‘unscripted’ and amazing…

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