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About the AuthorNilanjan Mukhopadhyay

The writer is an author and journalist based in Delhi-NCR. His latest book is 'The Demolition and the Verdict: Ayodhya and the Project to Reconfigure India', and he�??s also the author of 'Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times'. He tweets at @NilanjanUdwin.

Rahul Gandhi said the Modi government is pretty lenient to Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, who have defrauded Indian banks. (Photo: File/PTI)

Rahul Gandhi must speak more on aam aadmi issues

The mass quotient and canniness of Mr Gandhi's electoral campaign has to increase.

7 Sept 2018 12:31 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in the Lok Sabha on no-confidence motion during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Opposition yet to offer an alternative vision

We are just seven or eight months away from the start of the next parliamentary elections.

24 Aug 2018 7:31 AM IST

Late DMK president Muthuvel Karunanidhi.

DMK's key test to live up to Karuna's legacy

There are two prisms through which we must look at the passing of Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the DMK patriarch, which was...

10 Aug 2018 2:12 AM IST

(From left) Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati, Mamata Banerjee, Rahul Gandhi, N. Chandrababu Naidu and newly-sworn-in Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy in Bengaluru on May 23. (Photo: PTI/File)

Rahul, Maya, Mamata: Pre-2019 dance begins

As the largest Opposition party with a national footprint, the Congress will naturally expect its position to be...

28 July 2018 7:30 AM IST

The BJPs success in accomplishing this diabolical plan would suck Kashmir further into the vortex of lawlessness and away from the national political mainstream. (Photo: File | PTI)

BJP plots mischief in J&K, India to be hurt

The plan to install a BJP chief minister will accomplish the party's Mission 44-Plus but through the backdoor.

13 July 2018 12:55 AM IST

Former Prime Minister late Indira Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Modi & Indira: Such a lot of common traits

Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala likened Mr Modi to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

29 Jun 2018 7:34 AM IST

Former President Pranab Mukherjee is welcomed by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at the closing ceremony of Tritiya Varsha Sangh Shiksha Varg , an RSS event to mark the conclusion of a three-year training camp for swayamsevaks in Nagpur. (Photo: PTI)

RSS is still searching for greater legitimacy

The RSS under Mohan Bhagwat has been relatively more subtle while critiquing constitutional and institutional...

15 Jun 2018 1:16 AM IST

Former President Pranab Mukherjee

Will Pranab tell RSS a few home truths?

No former President has accepted an invitation to address such a batch of ideologically-committed activists.

1 Jun 2018 2:26 AM IST

B.S. Yeddyurappa takes oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

In Karnataka, see the birth of a shamocracy

The BJP and its ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is little but a breeding ground of autocrats...

18 May 2018 1:21 AM IST

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah addresses a rally at Afzalpur in Kalaburagi district on Monday. (Photo: KPN)

Clear choices in Karnataka: Will Modi magic work?

Modi attacked Rahul Gandhi for his Italian heritage, indicating a lack of confidence in ousting the Congress on the...

4 May 2018 7:30 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the inauguration of 10th edition of DefExpo 2018, a biennial exhibition of weapons and military hardware, at Tiruvidandhai, on the outskirts of Chennai on Thursday. (Photo: DC)

After 2014 Modi wave, 2019 headed for drift

Bloc by bloc those who comprised Mr Modi's supporters are now beginning to turn bitter and angry.

20 April 2018 7:30 AM IST

Dalits block the NH-16 at Lalacheruvu in Rajahmundry on Monday. (Photo: DC)

Dalit fury rattles BJP, as Sangh fuzzy over caste

The Modi government is conspicuous in its inability to comprehend dalit sense and sensibility.

6 April 2018 7:15 AM IST