Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was easily one of the most maligned administrators in the world in the wake of post-Godhra riots in 2002. He was publicly ticked off by then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who reminded Modi of the need to
After a bit of a showdown with former Fed chief Ben Bernanke and a few other central bank governors at a conference in Washington, RBI governor Raghuram Rajan could well be headed for some fireworks back home. While the grapevine is abuzz
In early February this year, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi made subtle overtures to the Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee while addressing a huge rally in the brigade parade grounds in Kolkata. In his address, Modi
Narendra Modi’s assertion that he called on his “good friend” Rajinikanth on April 13 to wish him on the occasion of Tamil new year, which fell on the following day, is cutting little ice with people in Channi, especially fans of
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership in Karnataka should have been sitting pretty in this Lok Sabha election, considering it has a substantial base that gave the party a chance to rule the state for five years till 2013. Karnataka was looke
Since inception, Aadhaar’s foundation has been shaky. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been functioning on an executive fiat, without parliamentary ratification. When the government first came up with a bill on the UI
Legend has it that Sanjaya Baru’s mom wanted her son to be a journalist. So what better than to name him ‘Sanjay-a’ – inspired by the Original Reporter in Vyas’s Mahabharata! It doesn’t really matter, de
My experience with elections dates back to the 2007 Delhi Sikh Gurudwara management committee (DSGMC) elections. DSGMC is an organisation that, apart from managing Gurudwaras in the national capital, also manages educational institutions, hospital
For civil rights activists in the internet and cyber space, the election manifestoes of major political parties including the Congress and the BJP have come as a disappointment. Both the parties are mute on privacy. In the recent past there has be
The ongoing elections seem to be the hottest and most action-filled one in recent times. The whole world is watching India vote. Everyone from veteran observers of Indian politics to the friendly neighbourhood paanwala is excited and has things to
Delhi has witnessed a relatively high voter turnout on Thursday in the third phase of the Lok Sabha polls with 60.1 percent of its 1.27 crore electorate casting their ballot for the capital’s seven parliamentary seats till 5 PM.
K Kasinathan, 62, has been residing in Kottivakkam area of Chennai since 1980. For him, people’s participation does not end with their voting in elections but they should also be actively involved in government schemes and programmes. It is
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. — Charles Dickens or the 26-year-old bank officer in Ahmedabad, that moment came in 2012-13. Having worked a few months for a top private se
This might be a trivial issue among the hundreds on the national agenda for the elections. For all practical purposes, Narendra Modi is the next prime minister. Yet, amid hundreds of trivialities written and aired these days, let us add one: Modi&
On a warm winter afternoon, Man Singh, an ailing sexagenarian, rested on the porch of his house in Kalyanpuri. Singh has been living in the slum cluster of this Faridabad locality for nearly four decades where, to accommodate his family of 12, he
Public sector undertakings – more specifically, their boards of directors – could be a fit case for politicians to build their spiel on women’s empowerment in this election season. Statistics do not always portray a tale in the r
"Chasi to mar gaya (Chasi is dead)," blurted out a frail-looking villager in the middle of a conversation with a group of BJP workers at the party`s district headquarters in Balasore. An interesting battle is on hand in this Odisha const
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which expects to do well in the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu, with five pre-poll allies in the state, has more reasons to cheer. While chief minister J Jayalalithaa has been quiet on any pre-election alliance with
It is not just Amit Shah who wants voters to teach the perpetrators of Muzaffarnagar riots a lesson by voting for the BJP. Many a Hindu voters in Uttar Pradesh think this is the only way to curb the rising power of Muslims in the state, which is d
The Congress high command’s ploy of ‘one family, one ticket’ is leaving many senior partymen edgy in Telangana. The party, which is on the verge of finalising its candidates for the soon-to-be-divided state, is said to be employi
