The Left maybe miffed by the decision to field Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Wayanad. The exit of Rahul Gandhi, the scion of Nehru family, from the Wayanad Lok Sabha Constituency in the post-poll scenario after winning two constituencies, has triggered a controversy over political propriety. While...
Two days since the news of sanction to prosecute Arundhati Roy broke, many are crying their hearts out. But the allies of the government are silent. Evidently because the writer is sought to be prosecuted over her comments on Kashmir, even the newly energized Congress is reluctant to stick its...
Is Kerala chief minister and party supremo Pinarayi Vijayan triggering an internal protest vote? Kerala elections are often marked by small swings in votes leading to big changes in outcomes. So the Left getting only one seat in 2024 was not a rare occurrence. But what was significant this time...
Decoding election results 2024 in today's world can be hazardous. Electoral democracy is a stretch, one can say perhaps, given the rulers we have been seeing the world over. Especially now, when someone like Vladimir Putin would like his country to be seen as a democracy and goes through the...
The BJP roller coaster ride in Karnataka politics has taken one more nosedive in the current elections. The state has been returning the same BJP MPs since 2009 mostly, indicating that the party has overdone the selection and overdepended on the sitting MPs. Recurring MPs had turned complacent...
The AIADMK under Edappadi Palaniswami should have disappeared by now and gotten swallowed by the BJP. But the AIADMK is just not going away. The AIADMK voter base is refusing to switch to the BJP, by and large. 2024 was a parliamentary election in which the issues were grand and sweeping...
So the BJP and Modi were indeed afraid of India Shining redux and determined to not let history repeat itself. In the normal course, this election would have resulted in a defeat of the BJP and regime change. But the shenanigans the government unleashed ensured the BJP can still come back to...
While noting that Maharashtra has always been the trendsetter in Dalit politics for the nation, Mrudul Nile, professor of politics at University of Mumbai and columnist, says going forward the south will take the lead in Dalit politics. Below is a Q&A with him Maharashtra Dalit politics has...
What if the brahmins of Mylapore and Triplicane suddenly start a party that goes around terrorizing Telugus, Malayalis and north Indian labourers of Chennai? And an iyer or iyengar, for that matter, who has been working in a newspaper puts together a group of rowdies that beats up communist...
Savukku Shankar, the social-media influencer, is in the limelight yet again. But behind bars now, on flimsy and even imaginary charges and attacked while in custody. His lawyers apprehend the draconian Goondas Act could be invoked against him. It is rather problematic for me to comment on the...
