New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- Dear Reader, Jobs are suddenly having a moment in political discourse. Or perhaps it is joblessness that is having a moment. Getting a job is difficult enough these days, so the... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- I woke up a little late this lazy Friday, which happens to be Rakshabandhan, the festival where sisters tie rakhis on their brothers, who are then contractually obliged by tradit... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- On August 25, when student protests in Patna turned violent-from dancing, bathing, and shampooing in front of water cannons to breaking barricades and pelting stones-the episode ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- Dear reader, This week, a video clip of a group of people worshipping Prime Minister Narendra Modi at New Delhi's Press Club of India (PCI) went viral. Unsurprisingly, it trigge... Read More
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