Surjeet M

Modi Vs Who? This Question Will Cut No Ice With The Indian Voter

Expect the ‘Modi vs Who?’ question to get more intense as the general election 2019 gets closer. Now that the…

January 25, 2019

Rahul Introduces X Factor To 2019 Elections; Priyanka Could Be Game-Changer In UP

This could well be Congress president Rahul Gandhi's political masterstroke. His decision to assign a full-fledged party role to sibling…

January 24, 2019

Surgical Strikes: Why The Government Should Not Take Credit

In the times of hyperbole, half-truths and unabashed self-promotion, it is not out of place that the surgical strikes of…

January 23, 2019

Run-Up To 2019: Why It Will Be Free India’s Most Defining Election

Each election is special in its own way, but that of 2019 promises to go beyond special. It might prove…

November 9, 2018

Run-Up To 2019: The Democracy & The Unholy Noise

Noise is the dominant marker of a vibrant democracy. More noise means more expressive voices, more views, more questions, more…

November 6, 2018

Run-Up To 2019: New Normal vs Old Normal

The old normal is dead, the new normal is here. Decaying over decades and bereft of ideas for resurgence, the…

November 4, 2018

Run-Up To 2019: Ideology vs ideas

Ideology is a killer. It excludes, it segregates, it dehumanises and it legitimises brutality. On the scale of destructive potential,…

November 1, 2018

Run-Up to 2019: The Leader & The Myth

Mythification is not without hazards for its subject. In an ideal world, the man and the myth should be perfectly…

October 30, 2018

Run-Up To 2019: The Perils of Normalisation

Close to half-a-decade or thereabouts, India stuck a Faustian deal. Amid frenzied Delphic pronouncements of a happy future, it chose…

October 27, 2018

Elections 2019: Discerning Electorate Unlikely To Fall Into ‘Towering Personality’ Trap

Modi vs who? The question fits neatly into the reductive universe of binaries we have settled into. It is also…

October 25, 2018