New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- Dear Reader, This week, an interesting yet sad episode occurred in Uttarakhand during the Mukhyamantri Yuva Vidyarthi Manthan (Chief Minister's Youth Student Dialogue), an inter... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Opposition parties, which cornered the Union government in Parliament and on the streets over paper leaks and police lathicharges against protesting students, now face the same re... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- Dear Reader, Politicians are among the most talkative lot. I have not come across any organisation with a more elaborate communications department or a bigger battery of spokespe... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Prashant Kishor's victory in Bankipur in Patna, a seat the BJP had held for 31 years, and its president Nitin Nabin for 25 of those years, is a political development that will res... Read More
New Delhi, July 31 -- Dear Reader, The 36-day-long Gen Z protest at Jantar Mantar, spearheaded by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) against exam paper leaks, ended on July 26, but the rumble and grumbl... Read More
New Delhi, July 27 -- The fault lines between the BJP and its Brahmin supporters in the Hindi heartland are widening, which the saffron party can only ignore at its peril. The growing rift has been ev... Read More
New Delhi, July 26 -- On July 25, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced his resignation, meeting a key demand of protesters who had gathered under the banner of the Cockroach Janata Pa... Read More
New Delhi, July 24 -- Dear Readers, This week, after the students' protest march to Parliament, I was invited by a news channel to offer my thoughts on whether Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan c... Read More
New Delhi, July 17 -- Dear Readers, The Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) sit-in at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, seeking the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over irregularities ... Read More
New Delhi, July 13 -- On July 2, Rajendra Pal Gautam, the newly appointed All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge for Uttar Pradesh, declared that the party would go into the upcoming Assembly e... Read More