Arati R Jerath
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Opinion | Is Sharad Pawar Planning To Merge NCP With NDA? Behind The Ongoing Calculations
The NCP patriarch, turning 86 this year, will have to take a decision soon - before someone else takes it for him.
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Opinion | Uddhav Sena, Trinamool Crises: A Grim Reminder And Mockery Of Voter Choices
The parallel defection dramas playing out in West Bengal and Maharashtra should worry us as voters. They not only serve as a grim reminder of the growing crisis in an electoral democracy but also make a mockery of our choices in the polling booth. Defections are not new. But the rate at which political parties have been splitting and regrouping ...
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Opinion | Congress's Old Problem Is Back: Over-Confidence Without Numbers
Rahul Gandhi's recent assertion at a rally in Gurugram, that the Congress alone can defeat the BJP, is puzzling. When has arrogance ever worked for the party?
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Opinion | Mamata Banerjee Brought Down The Left, But Never Quite Learnt From Its Fall
The traits that served Mamata well when she swept the Left out of power in West Bengal in 2011 are the very ones that ultimately led to her downfall.
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Opinion | Wanted, Desperately: A 'Fixer' For Rahul Gandhi
With Congress getting blindsided state after state, Rahul needs an 'Ahmed Patel' of his own who can fix things before they blow up into embarrassing crises.
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Opinion | Beyond Ajit Pawar: What Happens To Sharad Pawar's 'Succession' Plan Now?
If Pawar fails to produce one last rabbit from his hat to revive his party after the massive loss of Ajit Pawar, the BJP juggernaut is bound to move in to occupy spaces vacated by the NCP.
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पवार, ठाकरे, कांग्रेस: महाराष्ट्र एक-एक करके इनसे आगे बढ़ रहा है
महाराष्ट्र में बीजेपी ने 29 में से 23 निगमों में जीत हासिल कर अपना दबदबा और मजबूत बनाया है. उस राज्य में जहां कभी कांग्रेस, पवार और ठाकरे परिवारों का वर्चस्व था, वहां मिली यह जीत दर्शाती है कि बीजेपी ने अपनी जड़ें कितनी गहरी जमा ली हैं और फडणवीस नए पावर सेंटर के रूप में उभरे हैं.
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Opinion | Pawars, Thackerays, Congress: One By One, Maharashtra Is Moving On
The BJP's victories across regions (it won 23 of the 29 corporations), including the country's plum municipality, the cash-rich BMC, shows how deeply it has dug roots in a state once synonymous with the Congress, the Pawars and the Thackerays.
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Opinion | Congress Should Now Learn: It Can't Always Be About Rahul Gandhi
The Congress is everyone's favourite whipping boy. However, it must accept the lion's share of the blame in all humility for the Mahagathbandhan's shambolic campaign in Bihar.
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Opinion | RSS Peace Offering, Tamil Nadu's 'Vajpayee': 2 Signals From BJP's Veep Pick
When the BJP was born out of the Jan Sangh in 1980, Radhakrishnan was appointed an aide to Vajpayee. He must have imbibed some lessons from the former PM - in fact, political circles in Tamil Nadu would refer to him as the Vajpayee of the state BJP.
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Opinion | Karnataka Is A Test For Rahul Gandhi - And He's Failing Badly, Again
There is an imminent danger of the Rajasthan scenario repeating itself in Karnataka unless the party takes decisive steps to hammer out an understanding between Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar. But Rahul Gandhi doesn't seem up to the task.
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Opinion | Congress May Have Finally Solved Its Tharoor Dilemma In Kerala
With the Nilambur by-election in the bag, maybe the Congress can finally put the sordid Tharoor saga behind it and concentrate on the challenging panchayat and assembly elections looming ahead.
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Opinion | A Month After Pahalgam, Have We Lost Sight Of Kashmir And Kashmiris?
While we establish a new normal of military deterrence between India and Pakistan, we seem to have forgotten that our most valuable allies have to be the people themselves.
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Opinion | There Are Two Big Reasons Behind BJP's Caste Census Move
The BJP had fought Mandal with kamandal,or Hindutva, and prevailed. But today, it seems to have decided to put Hindutva on the back burner for the moment and borrow a leaf from VP Singh's playbook.
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Opinion | Congress Must Learn That Nehru, Gandhi, Patel Can't Save It Anymore
As a senior leader who spoke on the condition of anonymity remarked in a despondent tone, "We don't seem to have moved forward from where we stood in 2020."
