Election Verdict 2018: Revision of Strategies
It’s important to revise electoral strategies, reasons Navodita, our Associate Editor. Here’s an exclusive report for Different Truths. The recent legislative assembly elections across five states of Rajasthan, Madhya...
Is Mayawati Playing Politics of Opportunism?
Mayawati has refused to be part of the greater alliance (mahagathbandhan ) unless she is given a major chunk of seats to contest. She may be right in her...
Election Commission should not Allow Simultaneous Polls
The controversy over holding Lok Sabha and assembly elections simultaneously as was the practice in fifties was revived following the BJP President Amit Shah’s letter to the Law Commission...
Vajpayee Was Diametrically Opposite to Modi: Gujarat Riot in 2002 was a Dividing Line
Behind the current proximity between the party and its mentor is the attitudinal difference between Vajpayee and Modi. Unlike Vajpayee, Modi has always belonged to his party’s more hawkish...
Opening the Door to Gay Room
Gay activist Harish Iyer, in a counter to BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who says homosexuality is “deviant”, insisted that homosexuality was a “variant” and that psychiatrists have said that....
What Makes Jaitley Go Berserk: His Hitler or the Historical Hitler of the Yore?
The Hitlerian mindset is in full force. This time it might be an expensive gaffe by the great nonperformer, Arun Jaitley. That millions died, killed by barbaric methods under...
When Solutions are worse than Problems: Analysing Amendments in POCSO and Rape Laws
The death penalty of convicts, definitely, does not hold an answer to the burning question of a rise in rape and related crimes. Even Justice Verma Committee has said,...
2019 Election Launch Pad of BJP is Out
Arun Shourie, like one BJP spokesperson says, is cursed with “too many grey cells for his own good” – he loses himself in the labyrinth. What to make of...