Mamata losing the plot in West Bengal

July 28, 2020

As the elections to the West Bengal Assembly approaches, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s politics come across as increasingly paranoid and intolerant. The state is beset with problems of governance and of law and order, and appears to be increasingly spiralling into a state of uncertainty and confusion. With the Covid...

Congress’ idea of India begins & ends with family

July 13, 2020

Replying to the motion of thanks to the President’s address in the Rajya Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had just been re-elected as Prime Minister for a historic second term with a bigger mandate, made an observation, which starkly exposed the Congress’s actual mindset. Modi called out to the...

How Nehruvian Consensus compromised India’s security

June 29, 2020

On 13 June 1962, Hem Barua, legendary poet, politician and Praja Socialist Party member of Parliament, representing Mangaldoi constituency in Assam, asked a pointed question to the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, on “whether the implementation, the unilateral implementation of the Panch Sheel ethics, is possible against background of this...

Amit Shah sounds bugle of change in Didi’s Bengal

June 15, 2020

If reactions, estimates and responses are to be believed, Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s mega virtual rally, “Banglar Jana Samabesh”, on 9 June, had a resounding and resonating impact on the ground in West Bengal. More than three crore people have already connected with him through the virtual rally and...

Cutting the Gordian knot of history’s leftovers

June 3, 2020

The most inspiring dimension of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first year of his second term is the speed and determination with which he has sought to settle some of the most unsettled facts of postIndependence India’s political history and evolution. In the last one year of Modi’s second term, one...

Politics of opportunism, confusion & appeasement

May 18, 2020

Mamata Banerjee is the only chief minister who has poured scorn on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s gargantuan and multi-dimensional effort to tackled Covid-19 and its fallout. In every meeting of the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers, she is the only who has complained about the Centre doing politics. However, there...