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Badri Raina
Politics
The Quality of the Republic Depends on the Quality of its Bonds
The ministers who designed this crooked scheme are trying to play down its malignancy. How deep the cancer has spread will be known on June 4, when the results of the election are declared.
Mar 21, 2024
Politics
Time for the Mother of Democracy to Be Less Indulgent Towards Her Unruly Children
We are not running an authentic democracy but a form of a corrupt kleptocracy, wherein the value of a vote may be brought to nought by politicians for whom politics is no longer a service but a corporate career.
Mar 19, 2024
Politics
Citizens Must Know Who Pays Whom to Cast an Informed Vote
If the top court had stipulated certain dates for the SBI to make the requisite disclosures of bonds bought and donated, it was clearly with a view to furnishing such information to the citizen in a given context.
Mar 09, 2024
Politics
INDIA Alliance's Patna Rally: Is a Great Political Change in the Offing?
Close to a million citizens, not dumb-driven, not mute, but alive, astir, and sentient, packed the iconic Gandhi maidan in Patna.
Mar 04, 2024
Politics
The India Alliance May Not Be as Dead After All
If the INDIA alliance addresses disgruntled groups and secures prospects in J&K, other Union territories, Himachal Pradesh, and the North-East, it's unlikely that the BJP will exceed 240 seats overall.
Feb 24, 2024
Politics
Illicit Bonds Scrapped: People’s Right to Know Inseparable From Free and Fair Elections
Clearly time has come to find a route to funding elections which obviates both corruption and undue lopsided advantage.
Feb 21, 2024
Politics
Honouring Adversaries Who Cannot Speak Is Realpolitik at its Canniest
At the touch of a finger tip, four dead and gone former adversaries have been elevated to totems of the highest national order.
Feb 14, 2024
Politics
‘Murder of Democracy’ Said Supreme Court. Nation Waits to Hear from Its PM.
Modi speaking of a third term seems both democratically unlovely and rather ominous, given the shameless transgression in Chandigarh.
Feb 09, 2024
Politics
The INDIA Alliance Must Forge Ahead, Leaving Nitish Kumar Behind
With the ever-swinging JD(U) out – noting that many of its members are as unhappy with what Nitish has done as are those outside the party – there is the opportunity to firm up a truly secular and people-friendly common agenda.
Feb 02, 2024
Politics
Take Nothing for Granted, Not Even the Constitution
Democracy cannot reside in the oracular voice of any one man, great or not.
Jan 25, 2024
Politics
Who Represents the Sanatan – The Seer of Puri or Shri Modi?
Would it be apposite for media houses to foreground the historic nature of the schism between the Shankaracharya and the forces of political Hinduism?
Jan 12, 2024
Politics
Sanatan Strikes Back: 'How Dare Modi Perform the Consecration Ceremony,' Asks a Priest
Nothing that any opposition leader may have said with respect to the canny political use of Ram done by the ruling party will carry the devastating import that the denigration by the shankaracharyas inevitably does.
Jan 09, 2024
Politics
As Modi Decrees a New Diwali, Remember There's More to Indian Politics Than BJP's Ram
There are three axes on which the election of 2024 will turn – Hindutva, a re-energised Congress, and the social justice agenda of the socialists-federalists.
Dec 31, 2023
Politics
Many Men in One: Jagdeep Dhankhar, BJP and the Play of Social Identities in India
Never was Independence as fatally on the cusp of a destiny, this way or that, as it seems on the eve of what is likely to be a conclusive general election.
Dec 29, 2023
Politics
History Repeats, Twists and Turns: Democracy Is Again in the Doghouse
Students of history would know that history (and democracy) has been conceived of variously through intellectual time. The cartwheel of democracy may yet spin, toss and change course.
Dec 22, 2023
Politics
Despite Higher Overall Vote, Congress Loses Three Hindi Belt States: What's The Way Forward?
The nitty gritty lies in this: the point-counterpoint among INDIA partners must cease forthwith, and the business of putting heads together to formulate both a common agenda and an agreed seat-sharing format be accomplished.
Dec 07, 2023
Politics
Do Some Old-Fashioned Fools Think Cricket Should Be 'Just a Game'?
Was there a conspiracy to lay a pitch low and mean so as, ostensibly, to neuter the Aussie bowlers? Or was it thought that just as the low and the mean have been so successful in the republic’s political life, it would be so in cricket as well?
Nov 24, 2023
Politics
Besieged by the Re-Energised 'Social Justice' Movement, Narendra Modi Discovers Karl Marx
Modi is a flamboyant gamesman, but does it ever behove our popular prime minister to watch the meaning and prospects of his utterances?
Nov 12, 2023
Politics
Celebrating 'UT Foundation Day' is Tantamount to Cancelling the Constitutional Rights of Kashmiris
There are zestful wedding guests, as it were, dressed in joyful finery. But no wedding is in the offing.
Nov 05, 2023
Politics
Two Cheers for the Election Commission of India, It's Time They Earned a Third
Should the EC rise to the occasion, a truly game-changing blow would be struck to bolster a democracy which unravels everyday at key constitutional injunctions.
Oct 31, 2023