Opinion: Lakhimpur Kheri Proves BJP's Approach To Dissent - Crush It
Yashwant Sinha | Tuesday October 05, 2021The BJP is securely ensconced in power and behaves pretty much as it likes. There is no issue, no suffering, no pain, which the people are not willing to undergo, drunk as they are with the heady wine of rabid communalism.
Blog: Why G-23 Cannot Dent The Gandhis For Now
Aunindyo Chakravarty | Tuesday October 05, 2021The battle between Rahul Gandhi and the G-23 is not just a turf war. It is a battle for personal political survival.
Opinion: Modi-Shah's Silence On Farmers Who Were Run Over
Brinda Karat | Monday October 04, 2021The BJP is getting desperate in the face of the growing support to farmers and its political implications and impact.
Opinion: Ashwin & Eoin - Haunted By The Spirit Of Cricket
Mukul Kesavan | Friday October 01, 2021A spectre is haunting cricket, the spectre of its holy spirit. Its most recent victims are Eoin Morgan, England's white ball captain, and his supporters, chief amongst them Tim Southee, Shane Warne and Jimmy Neesham.
Blog: PK Was Set To Join The Congress. So Why Didn't It Happen?
Arvind Gunasekar | Friday October 01, 2021In the middle of July this year, images went viral of political strategist Prashant Kishor entering Rahul Gandhi's residence in central Delhi.
Opinion: Gandhis' Ineptitude Costs It One State After Another
Sudheendra Kulkarni | Thursday September 30, 2021The Congress has to do many things for its revival. But right now, Rahul Gandhi has to take one urgent decision. He must end the dangerous drift in the party.
Opinion: Amazon's India Headache Is Turning Into A Throbbing Migraine
Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Thursday September 30, 2021The world's second-richest man is getting an almost-daily reminder of how tough it will be to win in the second-most-populous nation.
Opinion: Even the People's Bank of China Can't Kill Bitcoin FOMO
Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg | Wednesday September 29, 2021The cryptocurrency crowd has wasted no time in dancing on the grave of Chinas "FUD" (internet speak for fear, uncertainty and doubt).
Opinion: Sidhu Has Trapped Himself And Congress Must Exploit That
Ashutosh | Wednesday September 29, 2021Navjot Singh Sidhu is known for his witticisms and motor mouth. But he now appears to have become the punchline himself. His latest tantrum could spell the end of his political journey which started after a not-so-glorious cricket career.
Opinion: Who Saw Sidhu Disaster Coming? Everyone - Except Gandhi Siblings
Swati Chaturvedi | Wednesday September 29, 2021Captain Amarinder Singh, who lost his job as Punjab Chief Minister thanks to rival Navjot Singh Sidhu, is clearly relishing his "I told you so" moment.
Opinion: How Digital Cash Can Lift Gross National Happiness
Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Tuesday September 28, 2021Bhutan shot to global fame in the 1970s with gross national happiness: a broad measure of overall welfare it prefers over the more traditional metric of gross domestic product, which only includes production of goods and services
Blog: Kamla Bhasin, Activist, Was A Doting Mother Who Touched Many Lives
Sukirti Dwivedi | Saturday September 25, 2021While many know Kamla Bhasin, the activist, for her feisty and spirited speeches against patriarchy, I consider myself fortunate to be among those who got to see the most warm and kind human being that she was.
Blog: At Afghanistan Embassy In India, Quiet Resistance Against Taliban
Sreenivasan Jain | Saturday September 25, 2021In a leafy lane in Delhi's Diplomatic Enclave, Afghanistan's embassy is grappling with a question confronting Afghan diplomats in capitals across the world triggered by the hasty, unseemly exit of former President Ashraf Ghani and the rapid takeover
Opinion: How Subhash Chandra Managed To Hold On To Zee
Andy Mukherjee | Thursday September 23, 2021A 70-year-old Indian media magnate was about to lose his crown jewel to a campaign by a U.S. fund manager. But within a week, a Japanese conglomerate came to Subhash Chandra's rescue.
Opinion: Tirupati's Injustices To Those Who Serve It Everyday
Brinda Karat | Tuesday September 21, 2021Their plight stands testimony to the bankruptcy of a politics that exists in their name - a "Hindu Rashtra" where workers have no rights.
