Dr. Shashi Tharoor at his best, talking on the perils of an educated person being a politician in India.

On Farmers protests-Recognize & Respect a people’s movement says – Sagarika Ghose

Blogs Democracy’s oxygen: Protests are an opportunity to create dialogue between citizen and stateDecember 2, 2020, 2:25 AM IST Sagarika Ghose in Bloody Mary | Edit Page, India | TOI Thousands of farmers from Punjab have converged on New Delhi to voice protests against new farm laws. Initially the police response to them was excessively […]

Lakhimpur Kheri outrage shifts political discourse.

The BJP’s calculations are based on several assumptions. First, it is committed to the corporatisation of agriculture. It also believed, till now, that it could manage the fallout of the farm protests in most states, with the exception of Punjab, where arguably every village has participated in the protest. The BJP knows it does not […]

BJP gains in polls after every riot, says Yale study

While many within the Congress blame its electoral debacle to the party’s obsession with “minority appeasement”, a recent study conducted by three political scientists of the Yale University claim that had Congress lost all close elections between 1962 and 2000, there could have been 10% more communal riots in the country. Gareth Nellis, Michael Weaver, […]