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Even if Congress is battle-ready for 2024, PM ambitions of regional leaders still a challenge

Opposition can't defeat BJP in 2024 without a strong PM. Narendra Modi is still hard to beat

Will Hindutva be enough for Modi-BJP as crises pile on before 2024? It better be

The Karnataka election loss, Balasore tragedy, wrestlers' protest, and Jack Dorsey's comments have all come in quick succession. The Modi govt's invincible facade is chipping away.

Vaishnaw’s resignation won’t fix anything. Opposition playing into Modi’s game

Lal Bahadur Shastri resigned, why not Vaishnaw? Well, actually it is more complicated than the current debate makes it out to be.

Questions for Modi—why alienate middle class, why pick gangster over women, is it worth it?

It’s been almost a month and while PM Modi has toured the world and ceremonially embraced the Sengol, he has acted as though the women wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar do not exist.

BJP’s 2014 mandate is near its expiry date. Modi magic didn’t work in Karnataka

It is clear that the Modi magic rarely extended beyond the Hindi belt and Gujarat. BJP has become what it once claimed to oppose: a powerful, arrogant, entitled establishment.

Tharoors and Shabana Azmis took a classic liberal stand on ‘Kerala Story’. They must rethink

I do think we should debate how to respond when popular culture is used to divide the Indian people. India is changing. Perhaps our responses should change too.

Modi isn’t Manmohan, it’ll take more than a media frenzy to fire Brij Bhushan

If the BJP feels that the wrestlers’ protest will influence the Karnataka election (which it hasn’t so far) or seriously affect the Prime Minister’s image, it will act.

It’s hard to be optimistic about Congress. Easier to praise leaders like Tejashwi Yadav

Narendra Modi wins largely because the Congress does not know how to stop him

Be horrified by reaction to Atiq Ahmed killing. But stop calling Indians bloodthirsty fools

The public has lost faith in the ability of the legal system. It is convinced that because powerful criminals will never face justice, it is easier and quicker to bump them off.

No, Covid vaccines didn’t cause those heart attacks. Don’t let hysteria win

The pandemic was such a traumatic period, full of death and desolation that most of us have blacked it out. We forget about the panic and misinformation.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity. Misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

‘Cassette culture’ discusses the boom of Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar saw the pinnacle of success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

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.

India, Oman hold 5th annual high-level meeting to boost maritime security

Both the governments expressed their commitment to strengthening their maritime cooperation to strengthen the maritime safety and security framework in the region.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.