Opinion

Opinion | Why Rahul Gandhi Keeps Making The Same 'Communication' Mistake

The Congress leader suffers from a strange paradox: always heard, but rarely followed.

Opinion | Gen Z Can Topple A Minister. Why Can't They Enter Parliament?

India's Gen Z can vote at 18, graduate soon afterwards, and even hold bureaucratic positions after 21. What they still can't do is contest elections before they turn 25.

Opinion | One Resignation, 3 Headaches: The Bigger Politics Behind Dharmendra Pradhan's Exit

The minister's exit revives an old Congress-era tradition and hands the BJP a very contemporary problem to solve on the road to Uttar Pradesh.

Opinion | CJP Protest And Opposition's Never-Ending Search For 'Readymade' Revolts

The Opposition cannot simply saunter in after anger has been created, and ask to become its beneficiary

Opinion | Sharad Pawar Has An Old 'Two Plus Two' Bargain For Delhi

Sharad Pawar appears to be keeping two doors open, and the political cost could be huge for both opposition and the NDA.

Opinion | Prashant Kishor Is Now Facing The Hardest Test Of His Entire Career

The strategist who once told parties how to win must now prove that he knows how to do that himself.

Opinion | The Story Of Congress And Its Never-Ending Obsession With 'Committees'

The present-day Congress works on a mantra that says loud and clear - when in doubt, set up a committee.Whether they achieve anything is another matter.

Opinion | The Rise Of The 'Outsider': Is Rahul Gandhi Giving Up On His Own Colleagues?

The rise of Rajendra Pal Gautam says a lot about this new doctrine.

Opinion | Why Indian Parties Are Beginning To Look Like Political 'Spare Parts'

India has thousands of political parties on paper. Some are genuine vehicles of aspiration. But others are beginning to look like political spare parts: useful when the main engine needs reassembly. Maharashtra and West Bengal are examples.

Opinion | Heir Not-So-Apparent: The New Reality Of Indian Politics

Trinamool's turmoil is a warning to regional parties that legacy can open the door, but only legitimacy keeps the house from breaking.

Opinion: Courage Or Folly? Inside Rahul Gandhi's Big Madhya Pradesh Gamble

How the Congress chose confrontation over compromise, even at the risk of going one down in the Rajya Sabha

Opinion | The Most Accurate Prediction About Trinamool? An MS Aiyar 'Joke', From 1997

Towards the end of 1998, Mani Shankar Aiyar briefly tried the Trinamool experiment. He did not stay long. But while leaving, he offered a diagnosis that holds true even today.

Opinion | Ignored By Rahul, Haunted By Pilot: Inside Ashok Gehlot's Grand Meltdown

Going by Gehlot's outburst, it remains unclear who he is accusing of 'conspiring'. But the 75-year-old seems to be getting uneasy about his growing irrelevance in the party.

Opinion | Vasu Dada Shroff To Yusuff Ali MA, The Indian Entrepreneurs Helped Build Dubai

Recently, when Vasu Shroff died at the age of 85 on April 26, Dubai did not simply lose a businessman. It lost one of the early figures who had helped give the Indian community in the city a sense of permanence.

Opinion | Karnataka Tussle: Is This Where Congress Finally Understands The Value Of 'Timing'?

For years, Rahul Gandhi's critics have accused him of being a moral commentator rather than a commander. Karnataka may be a rebuttal to that charge.

Opinion | Why India's 'Cockroach' Rebellion Should Terrify The Opposition

For India's opposition, the message is clear. Stop assuming young voters are merely waiting to be mobilised against Modi. They want credible jobs, fair exams, affordable futures, and political entry without family passwords.

Opinion | One Person In Gandhi Family Is Smiling Over Satheesan's Kerala Win - Despite Rahul

Rahul lost in Kerala. Priyanka gained. Kharge is satisfied. Venugopal was checked. And Satheesan emerged as Chief Minister. That is the internal Congress story beneath the Kerala story.

Opinion | KC Venugopal, And The Paradox Of Being The Man Rahul Can't Do Without

The tragedy for Satheesan, if he doesn't get the post, would be that he helped create the victory that made Venugopal possible. The danger for Venugopal is that everyone in Kerala knows it.

Opinion | Is INDIA Bloc Set To Split After Tamil Nadu, Bengal Results? A Look At The Mess

Reportedly, Rahul was quick to realise his folly of not siding with Vijay sooner, the day votes were cast across Tamil Nadu. By April 24-25, he had told a close aide, "We made a blunder in Tamil Nadu."

Opinion | The Dam Breaks: Kerala Didn't Reject The Left, It Rejected What It Had Turned Into

This verdict is not merely an anti-incumbency wave, but also a moral correction issued by a politically literate electorate against the tone of power.