A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.
Left-liberals are Narendra Modi’s ‘useful idiots’
The BJP government needs a new enemy. Adding Maoists to Muslims, the tukde-tukde thread will tie in nicely for 2019, writes Shekhar Gupta in his weekly column ‘National Interest’. He says one might even get a “nation in grave danger” story by the summer of 2019, of which there can be only one beneficiary — the prime minister and his party.
The question on Kejriwal that’s splitting AAP
D.K. Singh, Rajgopal Singh and Chitleen K. Sethi detail why the Aam Aadmi Party — hit by a flurry of exits, compromises with rivals and dissent in its ranks – appears to be floundering, with questions being raised over the functioning of its chief, Arvind Kejriwal.
Spurred on by suicide, 3 IAS officers detail the harsher side of the civil services
Sanya Dingra profiles three IAS officers, who spurred on by an aspirant’s suicide earlier this year, have started a Facebook page to share stories of civil servants’ struggles to make it.
Time and again, Modi gets away with his gaffes, a privilege not accorded to Rahul
There’s no dearth of gaffes made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, writes Shivam Vij. But what shields the prime minister from being ridiculed for them, unlike Congress president Rahul Gandhi, is that the Prime Minister has built political capital, both administratively and electorally, Vij adds.
Failed civil services aspirants take to online mediums to help others crack the exam
Kritika Sharma on online start-ups that are looking to shake up the Rs 3,000 crore civil services coaching industry by relying on just three aspects — an internet connection, a mobile phone/laptop, and jazba (passion).
What’s in a name? A lot, it seems, when you headed for the polls these days
Rajgopal Singh reports on the Aam Aadmi Party getting its Lok Sabha candidate for East Delhi, Atishi Marlena, to drop her surname from her Twitter handle, to quell rumours that she is Christian.
This is what has happened to the Kashmiri woman who was with Major Gogoi
With an army Court of Inquiry (CoI) prima facie finding Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi, the officer behind the ‘human shield’ incident, guilty of “fraternising with a local”, Rahiba R. Parveen finds that the woman at the heart of the row is in ‘isolation’ as her family battles the stigma of the episode.