The Right Turns of Shashi Tharoor
YB Chavan was one of the old guards of Congress who held many ministry portfolios. A seasoned politician and one who was respected across the polity of his times, he was one of the most successful ministers of the Congress till 1977. In 1977 when Janata Party government came to power, he made a critical error of judgement and left the Congress. When More...
NSA Talks: In Which Pakistan does an Arvind Kejriwal
Twice in just over a year, the Hurriyat hounds have been made pariahs by the Modi-led government of India. In August last year, India cancelled its scheduled Foreign Secretary level talks with Pakistan after the More...
Bihar Staring at Jungleraj 2.0
With gradual optimism being felt on multiple fronts in terms of governance at the national level, Bihar might be staring at a future full of gloom and darkness. The threat of the state being pushed back by another More...
OROP: Modi Government is the Victim of Past Sins
It’s pathetically foolish for anyone to believe that that the NDA government will deceive the nation by not honouring its commitment to OROP. It’s natural for the Pappu of our politics who has recently taken More...
Why FTII Agitators should be Prosecuted
Pune’s Film & Television Institute of India is once again in the limelight—this time for the supposedly draconian crackdown on the striking students in a midnight swoop. There is a sense of déjà vu among More...
Parliament Logjam: Two Proposed Constitutional Amendments
Ultimately, it’s a revelation of the citizen’s helplessness as well as a sign of the hopeless state of our democracy. That’s what it is—the PIL filed by an NGO (Foundation for Restoration of National Values) More...
Narendra Modi Shifts Momentum in Bihar: Jitters in Janata Parivar
In continuation of the IndiaFacts series on the upcoming Bihar assembly election, we can now examine the battle that increasingly looks fierce and promising. The consensus of most political observers is that it More...
Book Review: The Idea of Justice: Amartya Sen
This book review is jointly authored by Saradindu Mukherji and Shoumendu Mukherji. The Nobel laureate in economics makes tremendous use of history, contemporary politics and value systems, with a generous mixing More...
Bitter Truths, Difficult Questions
Morgan Freeman’s character in Now You See Me (2013) tells Mark Ruffalo’s character, “When a magician waves his hand and says, ‘This is where the magic is happening,’ the real trick is happening somewhere More...
Untangling the Vyapam Scam Web
Note: This was contributed by the blogger Frustrated Indian. Follow the writer on Twitter @unsubtledesi. The Vyapam Scam is one of the biggest scams plaguing Madhya Pradesh for decades. It involved a major racket More...