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As differences emerge with government on growth and inflation, it will need to draw on multiple policy tools
Government initiatives to end manual scavenging have fallen short. Organisations have argued that fixing the problem is difficult without...
If some see the graduation cap and gown as a colonial relic, for others it represents empowerment and choice.
In Kachchh, at a gathering of organisations, this and other big questions, and a daring to imagine alternatives to modern ‘development’.
In the Lok Sabha elections this year, Indian democracy had glimpsed a sliver of hope — a window cracked open not by political parties but by the...
The scale of the BJP-Mahayuti win poses a challenge for analysts. INDIA coalition, however, must not be distracted from a reckoning with its own...
The question was straightforward: “What exactly is an urban Naxal?” My reply: “It’s a ghost — both nothing and everything. Open your eyes,...
SAD once served as a moderating force in Punjab, bridging religious and political divides. In its absence, radical voices may be gaining ground. The...
The Supreme Court has issued strict directions to the Centre and the Delhi government. However, the emergency mode offers, at best, a limited...
A study says weight loss comes down to fat cells and their memory. At the very least, this suggests that there is no longer any need to continue the...
If we live in a neighbourhood where every single neighbour is unhappy with us, it may not be a bad idea to ask: Did we do something wrong?
It is time to face a difficult question. Is democracy all that good? How do we relate to democracy when it produces evil? Can we give up on democracy?...
US elections are like a wedding in the big landlord’s family in our village. It makes for a spectacle, designed to keep the entire village busy for...
It is time to junk the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). It is time to recognise that it is not just harmless fiction; this is a weapon of distraction and...
“Republican Party doesn’t care for the Blacks as they won’t vote for it. Democratic Party doesn’t care either, as Blacks must vote for it.”...
The historic Leh to Delhi padyatra led by Sonam Wangchuk must serve as a reminder that India needs what Rammanohar Lohia had called a “Himalayan...
The instant analysis of the Haryana Assembly elections illustrates the problem with our political commentary. To borrow a cricket metaphor, we seek to...
When Kishen Pattanayak (1930-2004) passed away 20 years ago, a small circle of friends, comrades and admirers mourned him. They recalled Kishen ji’s...
The world is full of clever answers in search of a genuine question. When talk of One Nation One Election (ONOE) began, it looked like a grand policy...
The debate surrounding the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is easily among the most weird passions of our public life. Just as every Indian must...
On July 23, 2024, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement of operationalising the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), a move...
Last month, I received a beautiful gift: An exquisitely designed, produced and packaged box of ‘Samay Post’, containing 14 children’s books...
Karl Mannheim, the Hungarian sociologist who founded the sub-discipline of sociology of knowledge, used the word ideology in a peculiar way. For him,...
What is political theory? Who is a political thinker? How can anyone pronounce the death of political thought? These and many other interesting...
You know something is seriously amiss when the pivotal idea of the Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech, his vision for India at hundred, is...
The Supreme Court has finally removed a long-standing legal obstacle to fine-tuning the existing policies of social justice. The seven-member bench of...
At a recent talk at the Asian College of Journalism, Yogendra Yadav analysed the “moral, political, and personal” defeat of Modi and the BJP,...
Narendra Modi had asked for an unqualified public endorsement for his authoritarian rule of the last ten years and for the dismantling of the republic...
If just 1 out of the 66 people watching the sarkari propaganda had changed their mind, the Supreme Leader would have been the Leader of Opposition...
The BJP has faced a political defeat in this election, but its social coalition is largely intact. The political task of uniting the bottom half of...
There is a long way to go for the Congress in this unlimited overs Test match of politics. But 99 not out is not a bad score on a bad pitch in the...
The anti-establishment vote for the BJP in some states has partially masked the overall mandate against the national political establishment...
The shock of the electoral outcome appears to have obscured a deeper story of the return of state politics to the centre stage of national election....
Let us begin with an elementary distinction: The formal logic of numbers versus the political logic of the mandate. The former is a simple arithmetic...
*Written by Yogendra Yadav This extraordinary election was an extraordinary personal journey for me. It has been a journey of loss and recovery of...
The BJP’s hopes rest on one of the two constituencies of Kolkata district in West Bengal. The PM has held many rallies to achieve a breakthrough...
The Congress appears set to snatch more than half the seats in Haryana. It could even be a reverse sweep this time.
Just like Phase 3, in this round too, the NDA stands to lose ground due to the sheer number of seats it had won the last time — 39 of the 49 seats,...
This phase belongs to the ‘non-aligned’ parties. They could play a critical role in the eventuality of a hung parliament, which looks much more...
As in the second phase, the BJP-led NDA’s problem in the third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election is that it has an awful lot of seats to defend...
BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in...
The turnout figures on the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 19 can be the first indication of the national mood.
Modi’s presence is no longer enough to brush every other issue under the carpet. His charisma is beginning to wane, making way for other...
So far what we have seen of the 2024 elections is enough to indicate that the continuous slide of democratic standards is headed toward breaching the...