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Opinion: 100 Years Of Atal Bihari Vajpayee — Former PM’s Legacy Goes Beyond Politics. Poet-Statesman’s Heart Beat For India
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Opinion: 100 Years Of Atal Bihari Vajpayee — Former PM’s Legacy Goes Beyond Politics. Poet-Statesman’s Heart Beat For India

ABP News  

“हार नहीं मानूंगा, रार नहीं ठानूंगा, काल के कपाल पे लिखता मिटाता हूं गीत नया गाता हूं ” These golden words of poet and statesman Atal Bihari Vajpayee truly reflect what he stood for. Following the Janata Party’s victory in the Lok Sabha elections that year, Vajpayee became the external affairs minister in Morarji Desai’s government. In the 1996 Lok …

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India’s Democratic Exception Is Running Out of Time
2 weeks, 3 days ago

India’s Democratic Exception Is Running Out of Time

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 25, 2024 11:00 IST - 10 MINS READ Indian politics over the past decade makes the case for a revisionist history of the republic. The success of the Sangh Parivar in imposing a communal common sense on Indian politics should encourage us to review India’s republican past in the light of Narendra Modi’s ascendancy. The standard Indian …

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Varun Dhawan called Amit Shah the ‘Hanuman’ of Indian politics because ‘he places India and Modi ji above all else’
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Varun Dhawan called Amit Shah the ‘Hanuman’ of Indian politics because ‘he places India and Modi ji above all else’

Hindustan Times  

Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan recently made waves for describing India’s Union Home Minister Amit Shah as the ‘Hanuman’ of Indian politics. Now, in a recent interview with News18 India, Varun elaborated on his statement, expressing his admiration for Shah’s unwavering dedication to India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Varun Dhawan had recently remarked that he sees Amit Shah as the …

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Why billionaire George Soros is being linked to Sonia-Rahul and Modi's economic advisor
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Why billionaire George Soros is being linked to Sonia-Rahul and Modi's economic advisor

India Today  

The air in Parliament was heavy with tension, a brewing storm that had nothing to do with legislative debates or public welfare. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has gone so far as to accuse the Congress of using Soros’s financial support for its political campaigns, questioning whether Soros-funded initiatives indirectly aided Rahul Gandhi’s activities. BJP MP Sambit Patra has called the …

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What Maharashtra and Jharkhand verdicts mean for India’s top political leaders
1 month, 2 weeks ago

What Maharashtra and Jharkhand verdicts mean for India’s top political leaders

Hindustan Times  

Maharashtra has reversed the political optics after the Lok Sabha election outcome and dispelled any doubts about who remains the most dominant figure in Indian politics. The Lok Sabha results then bolstered those who believed that Shinde had made a mistake; that he was a fleeting political phenomenon at best; and that Sena’s workers would never leave the Thackerays. And …

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Kapil Dev rejects 'keep cricket separate from politics' stance, backs following Indian government orders
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Kapil Dev rejects 'keep cricket separate from politics' stance, backs following Indian government orders

Firstpost  

Kapil Dev’s take on the ICC Champions Trophy row stands apart from other experts, who consistently advocate for separating cricket from politics. Kapil Dev has taken a non-nonsense stand on the ICC Champions Trophy row between India and Pakistan. Image: PTI Team India’s legendary former captain Kapil Dev has taken a clear stand on whether the team should go to …

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100 Days of Modi 3.0: 5 Takeaways
4 months ago

100 Days of Modi 3.0: 5 Takeaways

The Diplomat  

The recently concluded Lok Sabha election results heralded the return of coalition politics in India as the Bharatiya Janata Party lost its single-party majority in the Parliament. The demand for a national caste census is the top weapon in its armory for blunting the BJP’s attempt to consolidate the Hindu vote bank. The cry for a caste census and greater …

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From unemployment to RSS's belief in 'one idea', Rahul Gandhi alleges BJP govt of promoting 'hate politics'
4 months ago

From unemployment to RSS's belief in 'one idea', Rahul Gandhi alleges BJP govt of promoting 'hate politics'

India TV News  

Texas: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, who is currently in the United States, criticised the policies of the ruling BJP government on various aspects-- from unemployment to the hatred he alleged the government has dissolved in the country. During an interaction with students at the University of Texas in Dallas on Sunday, Gandhi said there is …

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The Ambani Wedding Bonanza: A Marriage of Business and Politics
4 months, 2 weeks ago

The Ambani Wedding Bonanza: A Marriage of Business and Politics

The Diplomat  

While the wedding of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani – the children of two Indian industrialist families – was all over the news in India, I did my best not to follow the updates on the opulent event. Those who win elections in India are the type of people who attend events such as Ambani’s wedding, and those who cast …

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Rajnath Singh releases commemorative coin in honour of M Karunanidhi, Tamil Nadu CM Stalin thanks PM Modi
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Rajnath Singh releases commemorative coin in honour of M Karunanidhi, Tamil Nadu CM Stalin thanks PM Modi

India TV News  

M Karunanidhi’s birth centenary: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday unveiled a Rs 100 coin to commemorate the birth centenary of the late DMK president M Karunanidhi. He praised the former Tamil Nadu chief minister and called him a "titan" of Indian politics. In this way, Karunanidhi also became the first chief minister of Tamil Nadu to hoist the flag …

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'Sharad Pawar, it is you': Amit Shah calls Maratha strongman ‘biggest kingpin of corruption in Indian politics’
5 months, 2 weeks ago

'Sharad Pawar, it is you': Amit Shah calls Maratha strongman ‘biggest kingpin of corruption in Indian politics’

Hindustan Times  

Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday launched a scathing attack on NCP chief Sharad Pawar, accusing him of being the "biggest kingpin of corruption in Indian politics." Read: ‘Uddhav Thackeray is leader of Aurangzeb Fan Club’: Amit Shah in Maharashtra Speaking on the contentious issue of Maratha reservations, the senior BJP leader accused Sharad Pawar of undermining efforts to …

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Mamata Banerjee’s Attack on Hindu Monks: The Deep Shadow of Appeasement Politics
7 months, 1 week ago

Mamata Banerjee’s Attack on Hindu Monks: The Deep Shadow of Appeasement Politics

News 18  

The 2024 Lok Sabha election campaign may be over, but West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee once again seized the headlines, this time by taking a bold and controversial stance against a section of Hindu monks. While it remains to be seen how effective Banerjee’s strategy was in securing electoral gains in the 2024 elections, her apparent attempt to rally …

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Terms of Trade | Can an elite-subaltern dialogue save the cause of secularism in India?
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Terms of Trade | Can an elite-subaltern dialogue save the cause of secularism in India?

Hindustan Times  

We are now in the final lap of the two-and-a-half-month-long election cycle. The rise of OBC politics to challenge the dominance of Congress’s upper caste leadership and a systemic crisis in agriculture and migration of blue-collar workers to urban areas undermining the material importance of the village in India’s political economy theatre. What the Congress’s current leadership does not understand …

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Congress gives political failure Rahul Gandhi a sports makeover?
8 months, 1 week ago

Congress gives political failure Rahul Gandhi a sports makeover?

Op India  

Former President of Congress party and its current ideologue, Rahul Gandhi officially deserted the family ‘bastion’, Amethi, on 3rd May 2024 to file nominations from Raebareli, a perceived safer seat for the Gandhi scion in the background of 2019 defeat at the hands of BJP leader Smriti Irani in Amethi. pic.twitter.com/5TMujizPw7 — Congress May 1, 2024 In the video released …

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The missing women in Indian politics - The Hindu
8 months, 3 weeks ago

The missing women in Indian politics - The Hindu

The Hindu  

Phase 1 of the General Elections 2024 is over. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, women were only 9% of the candidates. In Uttar Pradesh, with 80 parliamentary seats, the first phase has seen only seven women contesting compared to 80 men. Rajasthan, with 25 Lok Sabha seats, has 10 women candidates, while Gujarat with 26 seats has so far …

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Terms of Trade | Indian liberals are having a Hillary Clinton moment
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Terms of Trade | Indian liberals are having a Hillary Clinton moment

Hindustan Times  

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. The BJP’s landslide victories outside southern India, we are told are a result of toxic and backward people consolidating behind toxic and reactionary politics. By now, it is an established fact that the BJP enjoys a vote share …

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Like MS Dhoni in cricket, Rahul Gandhi is best 'finisher' of Indian politics: Rajnath Singh
9 months ago

Like MS Dhoni in cricket, Rahul Gandhi is best 'finisher' of Indian politics: Rajnath Singh

India TV News  

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Union minister Rajnath Singh today took a dig at Rahul Gandhi, saying that like Mahendra Singh Dhoni in cricket, the Congress leader was the best finisher of Indian politics. Rajnath Singh alleges Congress of corruption Congress and corruption were inextricably linked, Singh said, adding that most Congress governments faced corruption allegations, but no such allegations were …

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Bonds, big money and an imperfect democracy
9 months, 1 week ago

Bonds, big money and an imperfect democracy

The Hindu  

The electoral bonds scheme that has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of India, was supposed to end the financing of elections with black money. In effect, the electoral bonds scheme was only an additional avenue for funds that political parties received. Cronyism uncovered Even though the electoral bonds formed a fraction of the total funding requirement of political …

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Sunita Kejriwal launches WhatsApp 'Aashirwaad' campaign after saying Arvind Kejriwal's soul can be 'felt'
9 months, 1 week ago

Sunita Kejriwal launches WhatsApp 'Aashirwaad' campaign after saying Arvind Kejriwal's soul can be 'felt'

Op India  

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would never have thought that one day his wife would give him a complex in the art of doing theatrics in politics. Notably, in a video statement on Wednesday, Sunita Kejriwal had gone overboard in her desperate effort to gain sympathy for Arvind Kejriwal as she said, “Kejriwal’s body is in custody, but the soul …

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Govinda enters politics again after saying it was full of 'deception'. Here's what he said in 2007
9 months, 1 week ago

Govinda enters politics again after saying it was full of 'deception'. Here's what he said in 2007

Hindustan Times  

Govinda has once again returned to active politics ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. 1 actor had once gone on record to say that Indian politics was all about ‘deception’. Govinda, who joined Shiv Sena recently once said that politics was full of 'deception' Govinda once termed politics as deceptive Govinda was elected to the Lok Sabha as a …

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An excerpt from Sobhana K. Nair’s Ram Vilas Paswan — The Weathervane of Indian Politics: Crossing lines
10 months, 1 week ago

An excerpt from Sobhana K. Nair’s Ram Vilas Paswan — The Weathervane of Indian Politics: Crossing lines

The Hindu  

No one can quite recall how Ram Vilas Paswan came to be known as ‘mausam vaigyanik’ or the “weathervane of Indian politics.” In the Introduction to her book, Ram Vilas Paswan: The Weathervane of Indian Politics, Sobhana K. Nair writes that political commentator Abhay Kumar credits Lalu Prasad Yadav for coming up with this descriptor for his political adversary from …

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Narasimha Rao Was a Batman of Indian Politics, Bharat Needed to Acknowledge this Ratna
11 months ago

Narasimha Rao Was a Batman of Indian Politics, Bharat Needed to Acknowledge this Ratna

News 18  

Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, in a true sense of the word, was a Batman of Indian politics. This explains Sonia Gandhi’s hostility toward Rao, to the extent that the former Prime Minister was denied a well-deserved memorial in Delhi, even when lesser worthies could find space in the national capital. Later in the day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh …

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How ideology shapes Indian politics
1 year ago

How ideology shapes Indian politics

Hindustan Times  

In the 2014 general elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party notched a historic victory, becoming the first party to win an outright majority in the Lok Sabha since 1984 and only the second party ever to achieve that distinction after the Indian National Congress. The BJP’s behaviour in power suggests that scholars have too quickly dismissed the role of ideology in …

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Sacred Games frontline newslettter
1 year ago

Sacred Games frontline newslettter

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 19, 2023 14:44 IST - 4 MINS READ Dear reader, Chapter XVIII of Volume 1 of Will Durant’s epic work, The Story of Civilization, begins with a striking declaration on India’s relationship with religion. Students and observers of Indian elections, including psephologists, academics, and journalists closely covering national and State elections, often wonder at the marvellous and …

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