In the apathetic election season, the mood is swelling but in bhakti. There is an eerie silence on the ground, which is as harsh and blazing as the crude summer sun.
Lieutenant-colonel Khan’s marginality to today’s Hindu-nationalist pantheon helps us understand a larger story unfolding in Jammu and Kashmir: The story of a state that remains partitioned by a line drawn in blood.
If India still must guarantee food rations to millions of its citizens, then the besieged liberals and povertarians may after all, have a case. BJP’s manifesto is a reality check on the very passions it unleashed in 2014.
Modi likes to paint his political rivals as meat-and-fish-gobbling quasi-Muslims who present 'Muslim' manifestos, appease Muslims, and can’t hope to represent India.
Modi scored a big minus on the Jalapaiguri tornado issue. He didn’t say a word about it despite the tornado hitting barely 125 km from the site of his public rally.
Modi’s personal rapport with both Biden & Trump and bipartisan endorsement of current state of bilateral ties, will further ensure the continuity of this “strategic partnership”.
Smaller investors don’t want to enter sectors where India’s big corporate players are dominant, not for fear of market forces, but for fear of non-market ones.
PM Modi can’t keep track of every donation the party receives and every clean chit a party-led government gives. So it's up to him to rise above the emerging consensus & ask tough questions.
The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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