What Amit Shah Is Doing Wrong in Bihar and Bengal
NDTV |The political soil of Bengal, as well as Assam and Odisha, is fertile for the BJP – provided the party is willing to grow organically
Make No Mistake. This Is Modi’s Defeat
NDTV | As we look beyond Delhi for the national implications of the BJP’s spectacular defeat, two questions loom large: one for the BJP, the other for the opposition
Kejriwal’s Willingness to Say ‘Sorry’ Has Paid Off
NDTV | Whether AAP wins or not, it has dealt itself right back in to the political game
How BJP Killed Its Chances in Delhi
NDTV | Its 3M strategy — Modi, money and mud — has so far failed to make a dent in the Aam Aadmi Party’s growing popularity
When Jayanthi Natarajan Found Her Conscience
NDTV | Had her ‘letter bomb’ been drafted before word leaked of the CBI being unleashed against her, it might have had greater explosive charge.
Congress Reeling from Anti-Leadership of Gandhis
NDTV | Eight months on from its stunning defeat, the Congress still doesn’t know how to find its footing on the frightening new political terrain where it is placed
Modi Scissorhands And The Future Of Films In India
HUFFINGTON POST | The government’s choices for the Censor Board plumb a new low even for a body prone to politicisation and patronage
A Year Of Living Aspirationally
OUTLOOK | Despite the upbeat feeling, things are seeming to stall. Modi’s one-man show and the mischief of saffron outfits are his biggest weakness.
Closed encounters of the ominous kind
TIMES OF INDIA | The future of the rule of law, and indeed of democracy in India, will rest on the ability of the courts to do justice in the Sohrabuddin, Kauserbi and Prajapati cases
What These Results Mean for Modi and BJP
NDTV | In both Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand, the BJP will need allies to come to power
Modi’s Lakshman Rekha Warning Grossly Inadequate
NDTV |Narendra Modi’s silence in the face of the communal statements his party colleagues have been making recently is something of a mystery
Compelling people to vote will empower big money, not citizens
TIMES OF INDIA | There are many problems with Indian democracy and the Indian electoral system that need fixing but compulsory voting is hardly the answer to these
What His Cabinet Expansion Says About the PM
NDTV | You can tell the barrel of talent within the BJP is being scraped pretty thin when Modi has had to make ministers out of a sitting Chief Minister, leaders poached from other parties, and a back-room player from the RSS
When a Big Tree Fell
TIMES OF INDIA | Thirty years since THE 1984 anti-Sikh riots, we still need to learn lessons on political accountability
Siddharth Varadarajan 