Speculation-time lengthens over India’s political scene. The big election is several weeks away. Uncertainties multiply, yet there is broad agreement on one factor that might favour Narendra Modi.
Even as a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court seems ready to hear the case about the Ayodhya site where the Babri mosque (said to have been built in
Assailed by one ally after another, Narendra Modi responded with a sudden poll-eve constitutional amendment dangling employment and educational quotas before poorer segments of higher caste Indians. Since opposing
‘Narendra Modi seeks image make-over.’ ‘Rahul Gandhi puts Modi on the defensive.’
In identical or similar words, such comments are common today in India. After facing setbacks in state-
That India’s political climate has improved somewhat was seen in the election results from what is often called the Hindi-speaking heartland when the Congress defeated the BJP to
Once more India and the US appear to show matching trends. Even as Trump looks to have become weaker in America, Narendra Modi seems to be losing ground in India.
Islamabad’s decision to create a corridor for Sikh pilgrims from India to walk unhindered to the sacred spot in Pakistan, less than 4 km from the Indo-Pak border,
The 42-year-old Chennai-based maestro, T M Krishna, was scheduled to sing at a festival in New Delhi’s Nehru Park on 17 & 18 November but on
Both Trump and Modi market themselves, Trump by exposing himself to the media, Modi by using an iconic platform (e.g. the Red Fort) or creating one (e.g. the
The beginning of the end of the seemingly invincible Modi regime? Is this how the future might view the Karnataka by-elections of November 2018?
After the BJP’s 4-
Two unexpected bits of positive news from the subcontinent: In Pakistan, Asiya Noreen, also known as Asia Bibi, a death row inmate from 2010, has been acquitted by the Supreme
On the 31st of this month, when his mammoth statue is unveiled, India will see the Sardar raised to the sky.
Here’s a slice of history. On 15 January
