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C.P. Chandrasekhar

Market analysts’ day out

Attributing the recent buoyancy in financial markets to investors’ confidence about Narendra Modi’s return to power amounts to propaganda that market

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Electoral bonds

Fuzzy funding

Electoral bonds make for zero transparency in the funding of political parties and leave open ample scope for unfair influences on the electoral proce

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App to enrol voters

A drop in the ocean

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Aiming high

The Lok Sabha election in Telangana is seen as a platform for Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao’s national ambitions.

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Missing chemistry

The logic of electoral arithmetic, which ought to have given the Congress-JD(S) combine a head start, is considerably weakened by the alliance’s failu

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Special status is the key

The issue of a special category status for Andhra Pradesh will decide the fate of political parties in the elections to the Lok Sabha and the Assembly

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Pakistan Day celebrations

Pulwama spillover

Security officials outside the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi intimidate guests, including journalists, on the occasion of the Pakistan Nationa

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Electoral Rolls

Missing voters

A large proportion of voters who are left out of the electoral rolls despite having valid voter ID cards are Muslims and Dalits.

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Interview: Dilip Hiro

Struggle for supremacy

Interview with the author Dilip Hiro.

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NYAY: No bridge between two Indias

A closer look at the Congress party’s proposed income transfer scheme.

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Andhra Pradesh: A parallel war

Screen war

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Fight for relevance

The PMK seeks to take advantage of the AIADMK alliance arithmetic to stage a second coming after a decade in the doldrums.

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Jammu & Kashmir

Common enemy

There is not much reception to the latest electoral exercise in Jammu and Kashmir, but political parties expect voters to turn out in good numbers as

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Rude awakening

The BJP realises that its muscular nationalism evokes little response from people and returns to its traditional campaign style aimed at communal pola

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Faltering fervour

The focus on “muscular nationalism” does not seem to be working out in the way the BJP expected in Uttarakhand, which has a large number of families t

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Tired tactic

The going gets tough for the BJP in western Uttar Pradesh, where the paradigm of communal polarisation translating into an electoral divide does not s

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BJP making inroads

The party poses a tough challenge to the Trinamool Congress in the five north Bengal constituencies where voting will take place in the first two phas

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The Rahul factor

A keenly fought battle is on the cards, with Rahul Gandhi’s entry galvanising the Congress campaign, while the CPI(M) has left no stone unturned in it

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Interview: H.D. Deve Gowda

‘BJP wants to finish off regional parties’

Interview with H.D. Deve Gowda, former Prime Minister and JD(S) chief.

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Strategic alliances

Maharashtra sees the BJP-Shiv Sena and Congress-NCP alliances sticking together after initial hiccups and the newly formed Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi tyin

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Patnaik yet again?

Naveen Patnaik reaches out to the people in order to beat the anti-incumbency factor that the Congress and the BJP hope to exploit in Odisha.

Crowd of contestants

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Deepening divide

Caste continues to dominate the electoral discourse in Tamil Nadu, where the AMMK, a breakaway faction of the AIADMK, is likely to damage the prospect

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Refreshing candour

A book about the vicissitudes of contemporary politics, which points out with honesty and insight the pitfalls of the upsurge of Hindutva and the chal

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Caste calculations

Lalu Prasad is resorting to his social engineering manoeuvres again to corner the NDA.

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North-eastern States

Citizenship Bill as main plank

Non-BJP political parties’ campaign for the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the eight north-eastern States focusses on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, with th

Acid test for BJP

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Diary from Trumpland

Joining forces

Russia and China both have stakes in Venezuela and are unwilling to let the U.S. drive an agenda that goes against their interests.

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Secrets held in archives

A collection of documents that throw light on how Indian leaders contrived to keep Kashmir in India.

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Squeeze on jobs

The Oxfam India report on employment says jobs remain a huge challenge in India where half of the workforce depends on agriculturefor livelihood.

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Transcending barriers

Transcender, a documentary that captures the life of K. Prithika Yashini, the first transgender person to join the police force in India, calls for a

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Livelihood matters

In the crucial State of Bihar, the contest this time is between “nationalism”, as projected by the BJP, and bread-and-butter issues, which the opposit

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