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The BJP’s rout in West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu in the recent Assembly polls is symptomatic of the fate of the BJP’s brand of politics centring around communal polarisation and the slogan of “sabka sath, sabka vikas”. The defeat of the widely respected ‘Metroman’...

When India is fighting a grim battle against the second wave of Covid-19, here comes the shocking revelation from the fugitive Serum Institute of India (SII) chief Adar Poonawalla that the vaccine shortage will continue through July as the government didn’t anticipate in January the...

The results of the elections to four states and one Union Territory on May 2, as the seat figures demonstrate, are a resounding rejection of the BJP’s brand of politics so aggressively championed by its sole leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Union Home...

The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has run into a wall of bureaucratic denial. The anti-corruption watchdog regularly reviews pending cases and even called for a probe into pending corruption cases, but little has resulted from its efforts. Earlier this year in January, the commission set...

Maxwell Gomera As many as 150 million people globally, roughly the combined population of Canada, France, and the United Kingdom, may have fallen into pandemic-induced extreme poverty over the past year. Partly as a result, governments are currently pumping unprecedented amounts of money into their...

I am hopeful that, in my lifetime, I am going to see a disruptive change in the eating and wearing of animal flesh. It is coming fast: the largest slaughter companies, and the largest investors in the world, have invested in laboratory-created real meat (called...

Let the games begin! This used to be the Roman phrase for letting the hungry lions enter the arena to fight slaves. Today, in India, we seem to be going back to the Roman mindset. If we look back into history, India as well as...

The recent utterances of the Madras High Court Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee would have seemed blasphemous a few days earlier while SA Bobde was still Chief Justice of India. Something seems to have changed. Commenting while hearing a plea concerning the Election Commission of India...

There is no doubt now what complacency and sycophancy have done to India. The country is breaking its previous record to count over 3.46 lakh infections a day on April 24, the highest recorded anywhere in the world since the pandemic began. The daily casualties...

Just before the 2014 election, two of India’s most famous economists had a public quarrel. Because they were academics the language was mostly polite but the disagreement was not minor. It was about the Gujarat Model. Jagdish Bhagwati took the side of Narendra Modi, and...