Guest Column

The BJP’s emphatic victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections throws the political field open for new alignments and possibilities. The pattern of old politics is set to change or...

The ongoing drama in the Congress after the drubbing in the general election busts several myths about the party. The most important of them is this: that the Gandhi family...

How do political parties die? If the Congress is serious about reviving itself, it must study the fall of Left parties in India and protect itself from dying first. The...

The fate of the Congress presents us with a bizarre irony: the moribund party should disappear from the political map of the country given its pathetic showing in election after...

Bengal is no more the citadel of Left progressive politics. Let’s accept this fact and be absolutely clear about the ground situation. Anyone who denies it is definitely living in...

Prime Minister Modi ran a presidential style election and won it. Perhaps any other style would not have brought such a massive success for the BJP. The choice at the...

The resounding repeat mandate for Prime Minister Narendra Modi can safely be assumed to be a validation of the idea of India that survived as a steady yet understated counterweight...

If 2014 was called the Modi wave, little did one imagine that 2019 would turn out to be a tsunami for the saffron party. In their analysis, media houses have...

The long election campaign is over, but it has dealt Bengal a political blow – of polarisation across religious and multiple other lines — that will take long to heal....

One thing stands out about Lok Sabha elections 2019, and it is disturbing. No real issues are being discussed this time, and it has come down to personal attacks. As...