Governance first
The nation hopes that with this resounding majority and consequent political stability, the Prime Minister will succeed in actualising his own vision and India’s unbound aspirations The BJP was well on its way to emerging as India’s ‘natural party of Government’ under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee when its hope...
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Modi, the faith keeper
25 May 2019 | Prafull Goradia -
Naya Bharat
24 May 2019 | Pioneer -
Farmers back in the fold
24 May 2019 | Parmanand Pandey -
EC must win our trust
23 May 2019 | Pioneer -
Time for cricket
23 May 2019 | Pioneer -
China-Nepal love affair
23 May 2019 | Claude Arpi -
Love has no boundaries
22 May 2019 | Pioneer
Choking the Opposition
Emboldened by the euphoria over exit polls, the BJP is trying to destabilise MP, Karnataka Governments Certain things just don’t change in Indian politics no matter how historic a verdict is or how tectonically an election shifts. And that is the transactional nature of power players, the smaller ones trading their...
Engage with Taliban
While the US has made several U-turns in brokering peace in Afghanistan, India’s biggest policy failure has been the inability to make its only military base in Tajikistan operational The Afghanistan peace process has undergone nuanced changes and several U-turns under the Trump dispensation. These are worth reflecting upon. It is no...
Trouble in the skies
Even as promoters of IndiGo resolve problems, other airlines are cribbing that it is being favoured over flying rights The news last week was that IndiGo’s two promoters, Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal, have had some differences and were trying to resolve them. In a way, this was actually a positive...
Vote for leadership
Be it Modi at Centre or Mamata and Patnaik in States, exit polls favour leaders who are byproducts of immediate contexts While some scepticism remains about the range of margins and the swing factors of exit polls, that is a debate of psephological granularity and arithmetical precision. But in totality, the...
The Italian connection
BG Deshmukh’s revelations in his book, A Cabinet Secretary Looks Back, shows how security protocols in the Rajiv era weren’t entirely above board There is much talk of how Rajiv Gandhi as Prime Minister took his Italian relatives on a holiday to Lakshadweep and compromised national security by misusing the...
Trump’s rulebook
Under the US President’s proposed ‘skill-based’ migration programme, Indians are in a quandary For a country that has been built by immigrants for the past four centuries, the United States (US) has become oddly hostile to immigrants over the past couple of decades. Now, President Donald Trump, who was elected...
Get down to business
The economic challenges are far tougher this time and real euphoria will be when the new leadership surmounts them Every election has its own takeaway and this, too, has one, certainly beyond the noise of violence, rhetoric, bigotry and raging passion. It is that of the silent voter, who has zipped...
