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Category: National Interest
Don’t smile too much, Congress
The post-Bihar “revival” of the Congress is limited to the front pages – the party’s secular decline has not been...
Narendra Modi – candidate to PM
Why the prime minister’s legacy will depend on how he governs, not the number of state elections he fights as...
Pulping the Modi script on Muslims
How BJP’s panicky return to basic-instinct majoritarianism in Bihar has pushed Muslims back into ‘secular’ basement Bihar has brought the...
Bihar is not Gujarat: How Modi-Amit Shah misread 2014 verdict
It was the model of growth not polarisation that won BJP the Lok Sabha election. The biggest mistake political leaders...
Modi will now face serious heat
If the BJP is the new Congress, the opposition won’t take 40 years to unite against it. This has been...
Modi’s 2014 after-glow is over
Why the Bihar defeat can be the best thing for him as PM, but only if he has the humility...
If RSS is ISIS…
Why India needs a new mainstream liberalism, and not the durbari Left, to counter the nutty new Right You can...
A heartland-rending tussle
Why and how the BJP and the Congress respond to the faith-versus-caste debate will still shape politics The interplay of...
A Nagpur manifesto
Why the reality of the new RSS-BJP arrangement should be accepted but questioned on its view on diversity While the...