Opinion

Blog: Forget Exit Polls, Liberals Must Explain Why Modi Is No.1 For Poor

Blog | Aunindyo Chakravarty | Monday May 20, 2019

Do India's poor really want an enabling economic environment where they can compete for jobs? My answer is - no, they don't.

Opinion: I Find Exit Polls Hard To Believe, Will Wait For May 23

Opinion | Ashutosh | Monday May 20, 2019

"I don't believe this data because the reality, as I see it, looks different. I may be wrong or I may have missed noticing when India changed so drastically. Real data has to convince me."

Opinion: Why This Election May Still See A Twist Or Two On May 23

Opinion | Krishan Partap Singh | Monday May 20, 2019

Honestly, if Prime Minister Modi is able to replicate or even surpass his 2014 triumph, it will be a major milestone in our political history.

Opinion: If Exit Polls Are Right, Narendra Modi Will Touch The Zenith

Opinion | Dr R. Balashankar | Monday May 20, 2019

Reading between the lines, I am convinced that the verdict is clear and Narendra Modi is winning a massive win hands down. This has been the perception I gathered after visiting major states from south to north and east to west, where the only concern of the voter was "who else but Modi".

Opinion: If Exit Polls Are Right, Modi Could Assume He Has Next 10 Years

Opinion | Mihir Swarup Sharma | Sunday May 19, 2019

"If I were Modi, and these numbers are replicated on 23 May, I would be asking myself: do I have another five years or another 10?"

Australian PM Heads To Church, Football After 'Miracle' Election Win

World News | Reuters | Sunday May 19, 2019

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison thanked his fellow Pentecostal churchgoers on Sunday after a miraculous election victory that defied years of unfavorable opinion polls and bruised a Labor opposition that had been widely expected to win.

Opinion: Will May 23 Arrest The Dangerous Godse Phenomenon?

Opinion | Sudheendra Kulkarni | Saturday May 18, 2019

The most important truth about Nathuram Godse is that he was not just a person who was hanged for his crime on November 15, 1949, but that Godse is a thought, just as Mahatma Gandhi, whom he assassinated on January 30, 1948, is also a thought, albeit an infinitely more important thought, for the future of India and humanity.

Opinion: From Modi-Shah's Press Con, A Hunt For New Allies

Opinion | Swati Chaturvedi | Saturday May 18, 2019

Amit Shah told a journalist "The PM does not need to answer" at the press conference yesterday that was attended by the Prime Minister.

Blog: Is Modi Moving Mamata Banerjee's Cheese In Bengal?

Blog | IP Bajpai | Saturday May 18, 2019

The Modi-Shah plan is to do a Mamata on Mamata and topple the Trinamool using strategy similar to that for the CPM -- with two major differences. One, strong Hindutva, and two, the power and the money of a party in power at the centre.

Opinion: 5 Possible Reasons PM Modi Sat For A Press Meet On Silent Mode

Opinion | Mihir Swarup Sharma | Friday May 17, 2019

Five years ago, in his last press conference as Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh said that Modi would be a disaster as his successor, and that history would judge Singh himself kindly. Today, as Singh's successor sat wrapped in a silence even deeper than Singh's, perhaps we should accept that Manmohan Singh was, as usual, right.

Opinion: Modi Not Forgiving Pragya Thakur Means Nothing - By Yashwant Sinha

Opinion | Yashwant Sinha | Saturday May 18, 2019

In 2006, Pragya Thakur was the main accused in the Malegaon bombing case, a terrorist attack in which six people were killed and another 100 injured.

Opinion: PM Won't Forgive Pragya Thakur; Will He Punish Her? - By Shobhaa De

Opinion | Shobhaa De | Friday May 17, 2019

Merely stating he'll "never forgive" her is not enough. It is disingenuous, at best. Show it! How will he 'punish' this awful woman? When? And excuse me, where are our law-makers? Too scared to comment?

Opinion: Sonia Gandhi Back At Alliance Power Play - What It Reveals

Opinion | Swati Chaturvedi | Thursday May 16, 2019

Sonia Gandhi, who had been absent for much of this election, has finally emerged to serve as the emollient for the gigantic egos of the opposition.

Blog: In Bihar, Nitish Seems To Be Riding Modi’s Coattails

Blog | IP Bajpai | Thursday May 16, 2019

Nitish Kumar, despite getting the BJP to give him an equal number of seats to contest in Bihar (17), looks like he is hanging on to Modi's coattails.

Opinion: Modi Interviews Should Be PR Disasters. Instead, He's On A Roll

Opinion | Mihir Swarup Sharma | Tuesday May 14, 2019

It has been an interesting few days for Modi. He has the election all wrapped up, according to conventional wisdom, so he is presumably giving interviews now because he has nothing else to do before the results come in but to read a bit of poetry aloud and discuss mangoes. After all, nothing that he could ever say will shake his followers' faith in...