Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a free pass.
Congress-led UDF seems to be taking the wrong lessons from the Nilambur bypoll. The ruling CPI-M is leveraging even the loss to build its narrative for the assembly election.
The 19 June bypoll in Kerala’s Nilambur is a highly unpredictable contest. The UDF’s Aryadan Shoukath faces tough competition from LDF’s M Swaraj, while the mercurial PV Anvar adds colour.
Shashi Tharoor’s equation with Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar is a strained one. He also isn’t known for hurling personal barbs at his opponents, which BJP expects out of turncoats.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan made a real political statement when he watched Empuraan with his family, despite the film taking potshots at the Left and Vijayan’s cult of personality.
Even after the spate of anti-Hindi agitations of the 1960s and 1970s in neighbouring Tamil Nadu, Kerala was open to the prospect of Hindi becoming the ‘national’ language.
A supplement dedicated to the Invest Kerala Summit had to share space with a half-page ‘Study Abroad’ advertisement—a fair depiction of the predicament the state finds itself in.
At 68, Shashi Tharoor may not be too old to bide his time. But it seems unlikely that he would be able to contest for the Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram anymore.
Electoral competition now appears dominated by welfare delivery and governance metrics, but ideology has not disappeared in Tamil Nadu. Instead, it has become strategic.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
Stop using the word Hindutva! It basically means essence of Hinduism and in one nazi like stroke you have generalized and degraded an entire civilization! That’s just propaganda masquerading as “free speech! Its like saying how crusaders got a foothold in Kerala? How did they manage to destroy indigenous culture and practices for political and financial benefit!
Stop using the word Hindutva! It basically means essence of Hinduism and in one nazi like stroke you have generalized and degraded an entire civilization! That’s just propaganda masquerading as “free speech! Its like saying how crusaders got a foothold in Kerala? How did they manage to destroy indigenous culture and practices for political and financial benefit!