Category: Politics and Governance in India

Where did you and I go wrong? 

As the government “readies a new line of defence for PM in Supreme Court” and the man himself appears to have taken a “Maun Vrat” (Vow of Silence), a shameless media delicately skirts around...

Of Kondhs, Aluminium and Vedantapur

Dear All: It is my great pleasure to publish this guest post by Anupam Sarwaikar on the Vedanta controversy…Anupam has written previously on the blog…I am sure you will find this post as thought-provoking...

If its not on Google…Was the Emergency for real?

Thanks to Vikram for alerting me to this. Below, a shocking excerpt from a recent piece by Kuldip Nayar, “The shame of misrule” (emphasis added): …Typical of Congress’ furtive ways to cover up its...

On neo-feudalism, Baba-log and dynasty politics

This post was prompted by Tavleen Singh’s recent article in the Indian Express titled, “We live in neo-feudal times“. In the article she wrote (emphasis added): Handing parliamentary constituencies down in the family is...