A Bridge Too Far: Nitish Kumar’s PM Aspirations For 2019
Anyone remotely connected with the marketing of products has heard “sell the sizzle not the steak”. For the uninitiated, it simply means you sell the customers what they want, not what they need. After the general More...
Lessons From BJP’s Bihar Election Fiasco
Reams have already been written on the drubbing received by the BJP in the crucial Bihar assembly election. Let me attempt to add my own two cents’ worth to the series of postmortem reports that have been More...
Butchered in Bihar: A View from the Outside
After being decimated in Delhi and fallen short in Kashmir, the BJP has now been butchered in Bihar. Maybe a mauling awaits it in the coming Maharashtra civic polls. The question I want to raise here is very simple: More...
Bihar Elections
‘This Bihar election is going to be as fascinating as it is complex, several intertwined narratives – caste, aspiration, personality and also Votekatuas’; calls a Bihari and a fine political observer, More...
Bihar Election Analysis: Parivartan Likely to Triumph Over Parivar
[contextly_sidebar id=”8769c5dI4MrO3dpr2mC6n5C9xOGpVGaN”] In continuation of the series on the upcoming watershed Bihar assembly election, let us examine the developments in the last few weeks and try 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...
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...
The Battle for Bihar: Does the BJP have an Edge?
Continuing from the previous analysis of the ‘Battle for Bihar’, let us look at the rapid political developments in the state that would impact the ensuing assembly elections. For a change, it looks like More...
The Battle for Bihar
The battle for Bihar is heating up. This is a ‘do or die’ election for both Nitish Kumar and his new friend and ally Lalu Prasad Yadav. While it is a battle of survival for this “grand alliance” More...
Sankarshan Thakur's History Lessons for Modi
Assertion: At the end of an oped in the Telegraph on 30 October 2013, the paper’s editor, Sankarshan Thakur provides history lessons to Narendra Modi and concludes that Modi’s sense of history is More...