The irony is that the person helping Mamata Banerjee in her ‘Congress-mukt’ northeast project is poll strategist Prashant Kishor, a friend of Rahul Gandhi.
Since 2014, Modi's persona is the defining element for the RSS and the BJP, but he wouldn’t let any regional leader harbour any such notions in their territories.
If a party helmed by the most popular leader in India and one of the sharpest political strategists—Modi-Shah— is looking like a house on fire in states, there’s a problem.
An anti-BJP Mahagathbandhan minus Congress for 2024 isn’t a bad idea. But a pre-poll umbrella of parties with influence over 300 seats can be a formidable entity, theoretically.
What is driving the Gandhis to emulate Kalidas and try to chop off the branch that they are comfortably perched on in Punjab, just eight months before the next assembly election?
The Modi Indians voted for wouldn’t air-dash to politically important cyclone-hit states but stay indoors when crores are fighting coronavirus and government apathy.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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