August 18, 2021
Partition: Looking back to heal and not hurt
On two successive days on August 14 and 15, 2021, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about the 1947 Partition of the subcontinent and its catastrophic fallout on millions of people.
August 14, 2021
A stormy parliamentary session and clouds over Indian democracy
It rained protests and disruptions by a united and unrelenting opposition every day during the nearly month-long monsoon session of the Indian parliament, raising serious concerns about Indian...
August 8, 2021
Breaking fast and bread: Rahul Gandhi style
On August 2, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi chaired a meeting of leaders of 15 opposition parties for breakfast at New Delhi’s Constitution Club
August 1, 2021
India’s opposition unity a work in progress
Politics has a strange way of repeating itself in some ways.
July 28, 2021
Pegasus spyware row and Indian democracy
The Pegasus spyware controversy has set off a political storm in India. Sustained anti-government protests by the opposition on the floor of the House paralysed almost the entire first week of the...
July 22, 2021
India’s Taliban Dilemma
“The future of Afghanistan cannot be its past,” India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had told a meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on July 14. It is precisely the spectre of a rerun of the...
July 18, 2021
Upcoming challenges in West Bengal’s political landscape
Over two months after the state assembly elections, which saw Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) returning to power with a thumping majority and its principal rival...
July 13, 2021
India’s new cooperatives ministry
On July 6, the Indian government came out with the announcement of a separate Ministry of Cooperation with the avowed aim of realising the vision of “Sahkar se Samriddhi” (“Progress Through...
July 9, 2021
The Modi government’s image makeover
Politics, particularly electoral politics, in India is as much about public perception as about the quality of governance. This comes out quite clearly in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
July 8, 2021
Tribal rights activist’s death: A wake-up call for India
In May this year, India's veteran tribal rights activist Stan Swamy had told the Bombay High Court—where he was being tried after being arrested under the stringent anti-terror law Unlawful...