One of the more striking observations recorded by Megasthenes, the brilliant chronicler and fellow traveller of Alexander the Great, was about this remarkable Indian...
We in our charmed circle can vent our rage in cyberspace. But children of farmers & working classes will vote out bad govts & get into uniforms to risk their lives for our sake.
The victory of the underdog in such an unforgiving society is something that fires your imagination. But there's more behind this elation than merely the colour of Obama's skin.
If this confidence vote becomes a seminal debate on India's foreign policy, just as the 1999 debate became a landmark one on secularism, some good would have come out of this crisis.
Increasingly, numbers & political clout is moving from villages to cities. Being more exposed to media, cities are influencing political agenda more than politicians understand.
With the decline in the might of pan-national parties and vote banks, even a national election has now become just a net result of many state elections.
The region, particularly Arunachal, has been left at least two decades behind the rest of India in basic development. If the disparity continues for too long, China doesn't have to fight any war over territory.
He may be an icon of Hindutva, but is the first BJP leader to defy the moral & political authority of the RSS. If Modi wins, the stage will be set for an ultimate Modi versus Sonia battle for national power.
A deadly combination of political inexperience, ideological rigidity and personal hubris has brought the King Canutes of the Left to an interesting turning point.
Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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