Sugata Srinivasaraju
Is Modi 3.0 all about legacy?
As Narendra Modi carefully navigates a third term in power while leading a coalition government, how much risk is he willing to take to leave behind an enduring legacy?
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Why is creamy layer argument in SC/ST quotas so controversial?
The apex court’s suggestion of excluding the well-off makes one wonder — does the lens through which society sees SCs/STs alter dramatically with their economic and educational progress?
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What Modi can learn from Gowda in the run-up to J&K polls
The 1996 assembly election in the state was similarly held after a long hiatus, nearly 10 years, under challenging circumstances. This is how HD Deve Gowda ensured free and fair polls
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Are Siddaramaiah’s days as Karnataka CM numbered?
Trouble is brewing for the Congress in Karnataka as the BJP-led Opposition tries to bring pressure on Siddaramaiah to resign in a corruption case that involves his wife and family
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Why Modi, Trump want people to believe they are ‘the chosen ones’
Although democracies don’t allow divine messaging like monarchies did once upon a time, modern-day politicians bring it in cleverly all the time to either return to power or retain it
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Will ‘Samvidhan Hatya Divas’ end up isolating the Congress?
Unnerved by the Congress’ successful use of the Constitution to derail the BJP, the ruling party is trying to shift the narrative by invoking the Emergency’s dark days. Will the ploy succeed?
- Sugata Srinivasaraju
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How the Constitution dominated Modi’s two speeches
The PM devoted roughly 40% of his time in his speeches to the Constitution theme and wove three complementary threads related to Dalits, the Emergency and the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty
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Should Rahul Gandhi be a reconciler or a hellraiser?
Rahul Gandhi was at his combative best while delivering his first speech in Parliament as the LoP. But taking the reconciliatory route could have proved more beneficial in the long run
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Why Rahul Gandhi picked Rae Bareli over Wayanad
In the 1980 polls, Indira Gandhi won from both Rae Bareli and Medak, but she chose to represent the latter. What stopped her grandson from doing the same with Wayanad?
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2024 polls have helped BJP emerge as a pan-national party
The Opposition may have used North vs South as a plank to attack the saffron party, but the results show that the BJP, in each southern state, has managed to capture the imagination and build a base in a way that Congress hasn’t
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Has the narrative shifted? Will the unthinkable happen on June 4?
Whispers that the BJP is in trouble have gathered steam after five rounds of polling. Is the new narrative a ploy by the Opposition to fire up its support base or is winter coming for the ruling party?
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Why Prajwal’s downfall is a cautionary tale for dynastic leaders
Prajwal Revanna’s antics is the latest example of all that’s wrong with dynasty politics. India deserves to be a free social democratic space devoid of such pedigreed, privileged characters
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Can power-hungry pontiffs derail BJP plans in Karnataka?
The BJP’s failure to keep mushrooming caste power centres happy cost the party in the 2023 assembly election. Will the party face a similar fate in the Lok Sabha polls as well?
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Why Congress’ promise of a welfarist utopia may not sway voters
To counter the BJP’s brand of polarisation in the general election, the Congress has come up with a please-all manifesto. This looks like the last throw of the dice of a desperate poker player
- Sugata Srinivasaraju
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How AAP helped create ‘the force’ that it is fighting now
Arvind Kejriwal and his anti-corruption brigade helped create a flat electorate with a simple binary choice – corrupt vs non-corrupt. In this flat world, the Congress, identified as ‘the establishment’, was the loser; and the BJP, recognised as the ‘the disruptor’, the gainer
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Indira Gandhi’s 1971 win rigged? A ballot conspiracy theory
Among all the charges of a stolen election against Indira Gandhi, there was one in particular that was extraordinary in its imagination and apparent evidence – and it had to do with the paper ballots
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What’s making Rahul so angry in his yatra No. 2?
During last year’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi’s message of love offered hope in a divided country. But in his latest yatra, he seems to have flipped the script with angry outbursts
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Why Nehru-Gandhis can no longer rely on their ‘pocket boroughs’
Rahul Gandhi’s defeat in Amethi delivered a gut punch to the Nehru-Gandhi family in 2019. With Narendra Modi upping the ante against dynasty politics, no seat seems safe anymore
- Sugata Srinivasaraju
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North vs South: Why Karnataka, Kerala CMs are echoing Modi of 2012
Karnataka has been vociferously speaking out against the finance commission’s formula to share central taxes, something that has earlier been spoken by Narendra Modi himself in his avatar as CM of Gujarat
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Why anger is the new feel-good hormone that drives the nation
When we thought that Ayodhya was about a joyous frenzy created by a successful mission, the nation is in search of new reasons to be angry. There is the permanent angst of the next civilisational attack
- Sugata Srinivasaraju
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