Counting for the results is only thirteen days away. Traditional political rivals have started open or secret parleys. Their best hope is that the Indian voter is neither…
The pivotal position of the Chief Justice of India The incident of a junior ex-lady employee of the Supreme Court making harassment charges against the Chief Justice of…
The first two rounds of the voting for the 2019 General Elections are over. What are the early trends? What are the initial lessons? A comparison of three…
During the course of election campaign, whenever issues relating to the terror attack at Pulwama and the Air Strikes at Balakot are raised, India’s Opposition is on the…
The First Phase of voting is over. The “Modi” factor was writ large across the country. Amit Shah’s challenge to the BJP workers to prepare for a 50%…
It has become a routine practice to call any action against corruption as political vendetta. Claim of vendetta has never been a legitimate defence in corruption. Those who…
The past few days have witnessed several cases where the Election Commission and the revenue authorities, both separately and acting jointly, trying to curb the use of blackmoney…
Rahul Gandhi talks on several subjects with which he does not even have a nodding acquaintance. He makes wild and unsubstantiated allegations against all and sundry. The only…
How do parties and politicians fund themselves? Indian political parties were traditionally funded with cash i.e. black money. Many have now tried to get tax paid money due…
Sitting in Opposition from 2004-14, I used to listen to the tall promises in the Congress Budgets. An early lesson that I gave to myself was “Don’t go…