CHURUMURI POLL: Who will win Ayodhya title?
As if its thali wasn’t full enough, Judgment Day in the Ayodhya title dispute has landed in the UPA plate, sending it in a bit of a tizzy. Prime minister …
As if its thali wasn’t full enough, Judgment Day in the Ayodhya title dispute has landed in the UPA plate, sending it in a bit of a tizzy. Prime minister …
Swapan Dasgupta in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “At one time, politicians saw business as the milch cow of election funding and nurtured crony capitalism to ensure a reliable source of resources. …
Apropos the plight of M/s Husain, Nasrin and Rushdie, the BJP strategist cum columnist Swapan Dasgupta offers this comment in today’s Telegraph: “60 years of a democratic Constitution should have …
A somewhat tenuous peace has been achieved in the ranks of the Bharatiya Janata Party after the “nasty jolt” it received in the May 2009 general elections. But a detente …
Jyoti Basu‘s death has resulted, as all death does in the eyes of a star-struck, ratings-driven, uncritical media these days, in a flood of faux reverence that would, in wiser …
Via Twitter, CNN-IBN editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai, names the “most outstanding election analysts across channels” on counting day, October 22. His verdict: Kumar Ketkar, editor of the Marathi daily Loksatta, and …
Nandan Nilekani‘s appointment as the head of the national ID card project has been greeted with the same seriousness that an appointment to the Vatican would have received. Sure, it’s …
PRITAM SENGUPTA in New Delhi and SHARANYA KANVILKAR in Bombay write: The stunning defeat of the BJP in the general elections has been dissected so many times and by so …
SHARANYA KANVILKAR writes from Bombay: Hindsight, as the moronic aphorism goes, is always 20/20. And we have been seeing plenty of hindsight dressed as foresight over the last fortnight following …
The latest desktop calculations of the editors of DNA with the two main alliances and the “others” running neck-and-neck. An opinion poll reportedly conducted for a weekly newsmagazine by a …
S.R. RAMAKRISHNA writes from Bangalore: Many say A.R. Rahman‘s music for Slumdog Millionaire is “noisy but nice”. That phrase could come in useful when you look at his oeuvre as …
Journalist turned BJP strategist Swapan Dasgupta, who had an inside track on the BJP campaign in Karnataka, writes about how the BJP learnt from and implemented the findings of an …
Swapan Dasgupta writes in The Telegraph, Calcutta, that by taking its cue from IT honchos and by directing its ads at “non-voting classes”, the Congress in Karnataka appears to have …
Swapan Dasgupta in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “In an election year—although, strictly speaking, the Lok Sabha election is likely to be in early 2009—every government is under pressure from the political …
Swapan Dasgupta in The Indian Express: “It is striking that despite being a beneficiary of rudderless governance [of the UPA], the NDA is not confident of notching up a clear …
Swapan Dasgupta in The Sunday Times of India: “There is pressure on the government to widen the scope of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, now operational in 330 districts, …
Swapan Dasgupta in The Telegraph: “Unlike its larger eastern neighbour, which cast a spell on outsiders, first as a spiritual haven and subsequently as a breeding ground for clever nerds, …