With the euphoria of the BJP’s massive victory and Narendra Modi’s swearing in as 15th prime minister now almost over, and the media dissecting all possible data to near death, I decided to dig deep and find out how BJP actually outdid
Promises made by political candidates before the elections serve as barometers of their performance. When the electorate puts faith in a candidate, it should also demand accountability for the performance. Reminding the winning candidates of their
So the folks in Delhi are having a hard time figuring out not who is in power but what is power. And while most non-Lutyens’ Delhiites fume, even as they wipe off the sweat – a collection of it would give serious challenge to the water
Honourable Members I am delighted to address this first session of both Houses of Parliament after the elections to the 16th Lok Sabha. Let me begin by extending warm greetings to my fellow citizens, who participated in large number
The offices of power minister Piyush Goyal, petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan and steel minister Narendra Singh Tomar have not sought freebies such as air tickets, guest houses, personal staff or vehicles for their families or staff members, a ra
Not long ago, V Balakrishnan, a former chief financial officer at IT giant Infosys, called the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) the “most successful and exciting start-up by an IITian in the history of India”. Those were the heydays of the party,
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu still remains controversial. With the NDA-led BJP agreeing to go ahead with the project, a section of people in Tamil Nadu demanded open debate on the power plant project. M
It is not difficult to imagine that most of the funky electronic gadgets that we so love to flaunt have all been designed outside India. In fact, India is amongst the last countries in the world for generation of intellectual property rights (IPR)
Prity Soren was 14 years old when her father died of stomach cancer. Her mother toiled to bring up Prity and her siblings. The family managed from the income generated by their tea garden in Chabua (Assam) and her father’s pension. Prity gre
Indians love the either/or formula. We swear by it; are ready to die for it. The extremes to which we are ready to travel to hold on to our belief is the interesting thing here. For instance, we either swear by the either/or theory
Clinical psychology may have many explanations for an individual’s emotional outbursts. When prime minister-designate Narendra Modi broke into sobs in parliament’s central hall on May 19, his moment of emotional catharsis was hardly un
The decision of Noida and Greater Noida authorities to ‘finally’ adopt the UP Apartment Act, 2010 has barely elicited any positive response. Instead the decision has been widely criticised for being a mockery and eyewash. Alok Kumar, p
It`s nearly four days since a 24-year-old was killed in Pune, allegedly by members of radical right-wing outfit Hindu Rashtra Sena (HRS), over a Facebook post with morphed pictures of Shivaji and late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray. But the compl
Nothing is as humbling an experience as an intense election campaign when you try to convince and mobilise voters to a cause. Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in the country in terms of population, is as wide in geographical expanse as it is compl
When I was the CMD, I never appointed anyone just because the minister asked me to,” says the former head of a Mumbai-based PSU. Employment business in PSUs, she says, is usually at its peak during elections. But whenever the
On Doomsday, I will say aloud, I came from the world with my heart full of hope –A landai by Zarmina, an Afghan woman who committed suicide because she was brutally beaten for writing poetry A mislea
India’s engagement with Afghanistan has a significant historical context. To institutionalise and foster this relationship post-independence, India signed the Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Afghanistan in 1950. It has had strong diploma
On May 28, Chivukula Sree Rama Prabhu, a scientist-G rank official at the national informatics centre (NIC), became its director general. Heading NIC should be quite an achievement worth celebration, except that he retired just three days later.
Life is often so cruel that it transcends logic. Nobody understood the essence of this illogicality of life better than rural development minister Gopinath Munde who died this morning while on his way to Delhi airport. He is believed to have died
Let me begin this letter with a confession - and my sincere facilitations and congratulations on the country`s mandate, and your election as prime minister, which you will be by the time this letter is published. I confess I am not a political ani
