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Lok Sabha election 2024: Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Karnataka see history come alive

India, April 27 -- Stepping out from their turreted and domed palaces, set in fairy-tale surroundings along lakes and hills, a new generation of former Royal family members is braving the heat, sweati... Read More


Lok Sabha elections 2024: How political families dominate India's life streams

India, April 25 -- In 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's principal poll metaphor, Mai Bhi Chowkidar' (I, too, am a watchman), paid rich dividends. In Lok Sabha elections, 2024, this allegory has ch... Read More


Lok Sabha elections 2024: How political families dominate India's discourse

India, April 25 -- In 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's principal poll metaphor, Mai Bhi Chowkidar' (I, too, am a watchman), paid rich dividends. In Lok Sabha elections, 2024, this allegory has ch... Read More


The Asaduddin Owaisi factor in Lok Sabha elections

India, April 22 -- In the heat and dust of electioneering in the politically-crucial Hindi heartland, the big question is which way will the Muslim vote swing? Another critical, and connected, questi... Read More


Inheritance laws, not political opposition, has cast a shadow over UCC

India, April 15 -- In an ideal world, the BJP government at the centre would have long introduced the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) at the national level. From the BJP's point of view, before general elec... Read More


Lok Sabha elections: Can Tejashwi Yadav, anti-incumbency upset BJP's 'mission 40' in Bihar?

India, April 10 -- Political rivals in Bihar, rarely ever on the same page, are unanimous this time about the 2024 Lok Sabha election: the BJP-led NDA will not match its 2019 performance of winning 39... Read More


Lok Sabha election: India Greens Party set for poll debut

India, April 5 -- For the uninitiated, and there are multitudes of them, a Green Party that campaigns for environmental causes in the political arena, is typically a Western, developed nation concept.... Read More


Three civil servants weigh in Sanjeev Sanyal's controversial comments on the bureaucracy

India, April 3 -- Former civil servants, who have held the highest positions in the government service, are not amused with Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) member and economis... Read More


Lok Sabha elections 2024 will be fought on and decided by mobile phones

India, March 26 -- In July 2018, a geek named Shivam Shankar Singh presented a provocative paper at a Bengaluru tech conference. Titled 'Weaponizing Data for Politics', the presentation elaborated on ... Read More


The Mayawati enigma deepens

India, March 13 -- Conventional wisdom and logic dictate that a potentially winning combination has no reason to be disturbed. But Dalit icon, former four-time UP chief minister and BSP's presiding de... Read More