BY: SOUMYA BHOWMICK PUBLISHED ON MAY 9, 2021 With all the nerve-racking anticipation doused on 2 May, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) swept the West Bengal legislative assembly elections in 2021. The Bengal elections were crucial for India’s political ecosystem for several reasons. Firstly, it was a tough battleground with the ruling TMC facing competition […]Read More

BY: TITURAJ KASHYAP DAS PUBLISHED ON MARCH 21, 2021 With the assembly elections for Assam slated for the latter part of March 2021, political leaders are pulling out all the stops, to be seen and heard. Among the states that are going to polls this year, Assam is where the BJP stands the best chance […]Read More

BY: SUVOJIT BAGCHI PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 21, 2021 West Bengal is set to witness its 17th Assembly election in a few weeks’ time. While there is still a nip in the air in early February, the political heat is unprecedented. It can only be compared in recent history with the one in 2011, when the […]Read More

BY: AMBAR KUMAR GHOSH PUBLISHED ON DECEMBER 20, 2020 History bears testimony to the fact that peaceful expression of public concern has been a hallmark of a robust democracy. India as the largest and a well-functioning democracy has also been an effective breeding ground for nurturing a culture that has consolidated citizens’ right to free […]Read More

BY: ARUN CHAUDHARY PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 18, 2020 August 5 will mark a year since Article 370 was effectively nullified, the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was divided into two separate units, and both units — J&K and Ladakh — were made union territories (UTs). In light of the current domestic and external situation, […]Read More

BY: YASHWANT DESHMUKH PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 23, 2020 The pre-Independence era was not really dynastic even though freedom fighters included, very often, complete clans, brothers and even tribes. But in post-Independence India, arguably, the first political dynasty was started when former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s daughter Indira Gandhi was appointed Congress president. In the rest […]Read More

BY: SAGARNEEL SINHA PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 2, 2019 Since the induction of Priyanka Gandhi, who resembles her grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, into the battle of Uttar Pradesh officially as the Congress general secretary, the grand old party has been in a jubilant mood. Priyanka’s entry to the party was never doubted; rather […]Read More

BY: NIHARIKA PUBLISHED ON JANUARY 10, 2019 In what could be a master stroke PM Modi Government has resolved to bring in a constitutional amendment to increase reservation quotas from 50% to 60% .The additional 10% quota will apply to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) to get reservation in jobs and in education, thereby serving as […]Read More

BY: BRIG ANIL GUPTA PUBLISHED ON JANUARY 1, 2018 The release of Hafiz Saeed, a dreaded terrorist and head of Jamat ud Dawa (JuD)/ Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and launching of a political party by him Milli Muslim League (MML), has aroused a suspicion in India that our neighbour is trying to rehabilitate the “good” terrorists. A […]Read More