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The festival of democracy, General Elections 2019, has concluded with the fireworks display of results. Traders of promises — the multiple parties and contestants across the length and breadth of India — have left the fairground with their respective profits and losses. Each is now...

Aakar Patel How can the Opposition pick itself up from this sort of shattering defeat? The rest of us who are not in politics will likely never fully understand the meaning of a loss of this magnitude. The problems of defeat start with the personal....

A major part of the results of Election 2019 is clear but still a lot is pending now at the time of going to print. The foregone conclusion is that Narendra Damodardas Modi is all set for a second term. The victory of the Bharatiya...

The Election Commission of India (ECI) got something very wrong this general election. It stretched the process through a very long period and scripted the progress in an unexpected manner. It has made the democratic process a comedy of errors and lacunae are emerging for...

Exit polls are not the last word. Yet, it might be worth a look at. Several television channels and tracking or survey agencies linked to them are projecting a repeat of the BJP-led victory in the Lok Sabha polls this time. Granted that the nation...

The game has been played for 2019 general elections. Some people will now play out the games of exit polls. If the past is anything to go by, these polls will be complete duds. Especially in the 2019 elections which have been extremely time consuming...

Aakar Patel Personally there is little at stake for me in this election. I am a well-off, savarna Hindu male of middle age. I have faced no hardship or prejudice or difficulty ever in my life and I have needed nothing and expected nothing in...

The country is in the middle of a deepening economic slump. Nearly all sectors are underperforming. Economic momentum has slowed down. Stock markets are bleeding. Gold is losing its sheen. After holding fort for a while, Indian rupee is losing ground to US dollar. The...

The department of Defence, it would appear, is defenceless, and national security is seriously at stake. Reports that the Indian Army has sounded an alarm and expressed its anguish over the ‘poor and defective’ quality of ammunition supplied to it for tanks, artillery, air defence...

Nurturing terrorism has, for long, been seen as a state policy in Pakistan. The luxury hotel attack in Gwadar port city two days ago must be seen as a wake-up call to the rulers of that nation. Luckily for it, the bomb attack did not...