Surjeet M

Expect the ‘Modi vs Who?’ question to get more intense as the general election 2019 gets closer. Now that the opposition parties have overcome the initial hiccups to agree on a …

This could well be Congress president Rahul Gandhi's political masterstroke. His decision to assign a full-fledged party role to sibling Priyanka has introduced the X factor into Indian…

In the times of hyperbole, half-truths and unabashed self-promotion, it is not out of place that the surgical strikes of the night of September 29, 2016 have been turned into a potent…

Each election is special in its own way, but that of 2019 promises to go beyond special. It might prove to be the most defining in the history of independent India. No, it is not going to…

Noise is the dominant marker of a vibrant democracy. More noise means more expressive voices, more views, more questions, more demands, more healthy arguments and in general, more…

The old normal is dead, the new normal is here. Decaying over decades and bereft of ideas for resurgence, the wretched hangover of a humiliating past had to perish. All its vestiges had to…

Ideology is a killer. It excludes, it segregates, it dehumanises and it legitimises brutality. On the scale of destructive potential, it ranks close to religion. The inglorious record of the…

Mythification is not without hazards for its subject. In an ideal world, the man and the myth should be perfectly matched. The latter is destructive when it far surpasses its subject.…

Close to half-a-decade or thereabouts, India stuck a Faustian deal. Amid frenzied Delphic pronouncements of a happy future, it chose to erase a bit of its recent past. It chose demagoguery…

Modi vs who? The question fits neatly into the reductive universe of binaries we have settled into. It is also in sync with the strategic design of the ruling dispensation, which has a…