Politics - Different Truths

June 15, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Congress Crisis in Kerala: Emergency Surgery is the Only Solution

The Congress in Kerala, reeling under the twin setbacks it suffered within the space of 10 days. First was the humiliating defeat the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) suffered...

June 15, 2018
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Politics

Islamophobia and a Succession Plan: Prime Ministership is Driver of Congress Sustenance

Islamophobia is a dubious distinction. Muslims pull it out at the slightest slight to the youngest but fastest growing religion on the planet. Critics of Islam say raking up...

June 13, 2018
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Politics

Amit Shah Using Sampark to Redefine Political Contours

Modi rode to power riding on the support of the urban middle class. But unfortunately, this middle class has turned his bitter critic, notwithstanding every attempt to refurbish his...

June 9, 2018
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Politics

Pranab Strikes Big Bang, Congress Hits Black Hole

Pranab Mukherjee did not have to “die first” to go back in time to retell history. He’s 82 and in his memory-cache there is enough of reading of history...

June 9, 2018
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Politics

Yogi in Deep Trouble after Humiliating Defeats

Both Yogi and state BJP president Mahendra Nath Pandey have been summoned to Delhi by party president Amit Shah to seek a firsthand report on the defeat. Both Yogi...

June 9, 2018
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Humour, Politics

Tharoor in the Dock Kicks Up a Farrago of Emotions

Here’s a humourous, fictional account of Shashi Tharoor and the pending court case against him, for Different Truths. Jocko Street cut short the overseas call. “Shashi Tharoor is in...

June 8, 2018
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Politics

Rahul Rally Creates Positive Vibes for MP Congress

It was shocking to learn that family members had been warned not to meet Rahul Gandhi. That pressure was mounted was confirmed by the family members of the victims....

June 7, 2018
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Economy, Politics

Manmohan Singh was a Real Reformer with Innovative Policies

Manmohan Singh enlivened the service sector by ceding several tax concessions. Software companies sprang up, placing the country a pivot for global software exports. Notwithstanding Modi’s slow pace in...

June 7, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Humbled Modi-Shah Duo on Survival Strategy

The emergence of the new Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka after BJP’s failed manoeuvre to form a government without the numbers, depending on the Governor’s patronage, has given an impetus...

June 7, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

When Pastoral Becomes Political and the Peril in Democracy

Those fighting for the archbishops’ right to freedom of expression question that if a mahant can be made ‘chief minister’, what’s wrong in an archbishop issuing a pastoral-political letter. Here’s...

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