Profile of Aakar Patel
If the government actually sides with the Dalits, they are smart enough to know this. Spending two nights in a village will not be needed
The weakest period of economic growth in the last 15 years has in fact come in a time when we have had a government with an absolute majority
The lessons learned from 2014, like the reward of large investments in social media and technology, will be seen in the 2019 campaign
The premier investigation agency’s conviction rate of 67% is an eyewash because on major crimes its strike rate is just 3.96%.
To gain control over messaging, among others things like funding, it is vital for Congress to perform well in the months leading up to 2019
What does Bhagwat think his militia will do once it is at the border? Does he think that the Chinese will come rushing down the mountains with rifles in their hands?
India's annual defence spending has been more or less flat as annual 6% increase manages to cover only inflation.
Fake news can get you killed in India. However we should accept that even in the total absence of fake news our problems would remain.
His performance if analysed through corporate criteria of quarterly results, Modi would have been fired. But he polls an approval rating of over 70%
Nationalism usually leads to violence and so it should be handled with great care.
Congress' leadership included deeply conservative figures who are today associated with the BJP but were actually from the Congress.
The Ghanchi community is not seen as a backward caste by Gujaratis and it became a backward class, or OBC, only in 1999 under Atal Behari Vajpayee. And so, for many Gujaratis, the word ’neech' will not be an automatic link to caste abuse for the PM.
Both on the side of issues and organisation, my view is that the BJP is ahead, either because of its strength or the Congress’s weakness, or both.
Activists were charged after a workshop on digital security held in a hotel. The government claims, absurdly, that this was a secret meeting that was organised to spy and participate in a coup.
The government’s data says that 99% of Indian victims of sexual violence do not report the crime to the police. Even in the United States, only about a third or so of victims report.
How does the Council decide which things we should pay most tax for?
Make in India, Swachch Bharat, Demonetisation, Surgical Strike, Bullet Train, Start Up India, GST: are these all part of something grand and whole? Or are they individual parts with no meaning attached to them?
Sushma Swaraj's twitter account is the modern version of Adl-e-Jahangir.
Whatever his decision, I would say it is unfair to ask him to show his loyalty to his country by not playing for any other country even if his own country doesn't want him.
'In a part of the world which is among the poorest in the world, we must ask ourselves whether curbing cultural activity is productive.'
'Most of us do not see communal violence as terrorism. The massacre of Sikhs in 1984 is called a riot. The Muzaffarnagar violence against Muslims was a riot.'
'Was it not true that under Jaitley’s watch GDP growth has fallen for six successive quarters?'
'Jagannath's Pandas famously prohibited Indira Gandhi from entering, though she was born Hindu and was cremated a Hindu'
The failure is systemic, and for us to expect that it will work in particular instances a show of optimism rather than an assessment of the factual reality.