To use the prime minister’s metaphor, the real “mangalsutra” transfer is clearly a result of structural policy changes. We can't forget the mishandling of events like demonetisation and the Covid epidemic.

Yogendra Yadav says many in the Hindi belt who voted Modi in 2014 and 2019 say they won't vote BJP this time but seem overwhelmed by the narrative of "Ayega to Modi hi".

How did such loss-making companies come to buy electoral bonds? Who are the directors of these companies? All these questions need urgent answers.

For 10 years now, Modi has been at the helm of affairs. He has run the most centralised and autocratic government since the emergency. His government has launched a relentless assault on the opposition and civil society. It is a bit rich for such a regime to claim that the opposition parties and civil society are undermining the judiciary.

In articulating his position on the electoral bonds, the CEC pretty much harked back to the utter illogic of then finance minister Arun Jaitley’s proposition when the Modi government first mooted the new mechanism for election funding. 

The anti-corruption plank is dramatically slipping from under Modi’s feet as revelations about the real nature of anonymous contributions to political parties via electoral bonds, with the BJP being the largest beneficiary, are coming thick and fast.

There is a clear mismatch between GDP growth and private consumption. 

Former finance and economic affairs secretary of India, Subhash Garg, speaks to M.K. Venu on key financial policy decisions and schemes and why some of them need to be audited.

After demonetisation, big companies further consolidated their market share through 2018. PM Modi delivered another unprecedented advantage to the corporate India in September 2019. He slashed the base corporate tax rate dramatically from 30% to 22% for existing companies. The nation needs to know if any quid-pro-quo was involved.

Prabhakar systematically demolishes the Modi government's claim that it has helped the poor, farmers, youth and women by delivering welfare at scale over 10 years.

'Whatever you get, [whether it is] piped fuel, piped water, it should be your right. They're seen as things that the government has to deliver. [But] here, we're treating it as a gift,' Ghosh tells M.K. Venu, in a special discussion on the interim budget.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s shortest budget speech was largely about reiterating the Modi government’s achievements over the past decade. But facts have never come in the way of Modi's penchant for weaving self-congratulatory narratives. 

Economist Jayati Ghosh notes how older promises like that of income to farmers and "achchhe din" or better days have now been ignored in favour of a "Vikshit Bharat" or developed India.

In conversation with economist Santosh Mehrotra.

Geopolitical uncertainties have caused a big rush to buy gold, even as global economic weakness and persistent world inflation make the yellow metal ever so attractive in the medium term.

There is an ever-widening gap between rhetoric and reality, as story after fanciful story plays out before the citizens even as institutions of transparency and accountability get upended.

Must wake up and smell the coffee on what is going on in the middle kingdom after the chip war.

Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh are crucial to this Opposition project because the BJP and Congress have a straight fight here.

There is a distinctive and polarised pattern of voting among SC/ST and OBC communities. The key question is, to what extent, will the politics around caste census work in the cow belt states apart from Bihar in the run up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Is the BJP putting in more effort to stop the Congress from possibly riding on what many see as a massive eleventh-hour momentum in its favour?