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A Surprisingly Good Day for Politics
India’s colorful and chaotic politics saw a parliamentary first Tuesday, with the ruling Congress party recommending the suspension of eight [...]
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Sonia Gandhi Faces Press
Rahul Gandhi’s faltering performance in recently concluded elections has proven to be a blessing in disguise for Prime Minister Manmohan [...]
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Rahul Rocked in Election
The results from key assembly elections in five states – Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa – are out, [...]
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Congress Eyes Muslim Vote
In a move widely talked about for the past five years but only now coming to fruition, India has introduced [...]
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Congress vs Anna Hazare?
The ruling Congress party yesterday lost all four by-elections it competed in – one for the Lok Sabha (lower house [...]
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Hazare – No Saint, But Needed
Around the world, the non-violent protests against graft led by Anna Hazare are being watched with enormous interest. From London [...]
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States and Foreign Policy
The last few years have seen an interesting dynamic in India’s foreign policy: states influencing, or at least trying to [...]
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Anna Hazare Under Fire
The inevitable has happened. It’s not just the Congress that is opposing Anna Hazare’s crusade for setting up a completely [...]
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What Turkey Can Teach India
Turkey’s recent election was interesting for a number of reasons – including what it says about politics in India. Turkey’s centre-right [...]
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Marxism Liberated in India
In his latest book, How to Change the World, historian Eric Hobsbawm says that ‘the era of communist regimes and [...]
