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33 STORIES
Chanakya IAS Academy
Nurturing administrators
Andhra Pradesh & Telangana
Kingmakers’ fall
Chief Ministers N. Chandrababu Naidu of Andhra Pradesh and K. Chandrasekhara Rao of Telangana, who nursed ambitions of playing a key role in the forma
Ambition Law Institute
Mentoring future judges
Interview with Alok Kumar Ranjan, Director, Ambition Law Institute, New Delhi.
Khan Study Group
Guiding spirit
Interview with Dr A.R. Khan, Director of the Khan Study Group.
Rau's IAS Study Circle
How to write an essay
Interview with V.P. Gupta, CMD, Rau’s IAS Study Circle.
Education & career
Road to success
Civil service is a lucrative career option. Preparation for the UPSC’s Civil Services Examination requires hard work with a focussed mind.
VISION IAS
Preparing the ground
Editor’s Note
The way forward
Tamil Nadu
Anti-Modi wave
The all-embracing anti-Modi sentiment in the State and astute seat adjustments by the DMK enable the alliance led by the party to make almost a clean
General Election 2019
Right on top
Narendra Modi once again trounces the weak and hopelessly divided opposition parties, and there are already signs that India is moving faster than eve
Maharashtra
Saffron stranglehold
The BJP-Sena combine wins 41 of the 48 seats and tightens its grip on the State, leaving the Congress and the NCP wondering how to return to relevance
Rajasthan
Emotive response
Narendra Modi’s aggressive nationalism masks real issues to secure big wins for the BJP in Rajasthan.
Haryana
Perfect ten
The BJP scuppers the Congress’ hopes of making a comeback in the State and pushes its erstwhile ally, the INLD, out of the reckoning.
Uttarakhand
Emphatic victory
A well-oiled organisational machinery and the absence of a credible alternative carry the day for the BJP.
Goa
Stability factor
The BJP and the Congress win one Lok Sabha seat each; the BJP wins three Assembly seats in the byelections, ensuring its government’s stability.
Uttar Pradesh
Curious patterns
The biggest story in the 2019 Lok Sabha election is the boost in the BJP’s vote share in the State, taking it close to 50 per cent of the votes polled
Himachal Pradesh
On a high
The BJP repeats its 2014 performance in Himachal Pradesh, winning all the four parliamentary seats but with bigger margins.
Bihar
On a platter
The NDA makes history with an unprecedented mandate in this crucial State by winning all but one seat as muscular nationalism trumps caste calculation
Gujarat
The grip tightens
The brief relaxing of the BJP’s hold on Gujarat, glimpsed in the 2017 Assembly election, is comprehensively reversed in the parliamentary election, wi
Chhattisgarh
Wresting ground
The BJP’s booth-level management and relentless propaganda on the air strikes in Pakistan, which the Congress failed to counter effectively, yield ric
West Bengal
Anti-Mamata wave
As the BJP wins 18 of West Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats, the Trinamool Congress government is under pressure with the parliamentary election being view
A.P. Assembly elections
Humbling outcome
The YSR Congress Party sweeps the Andhra Pradesh Assembly election, decimating N. Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP.
Odisha
Welfare state
Naveen Patnaik proves that the Modi wave is no match for his charisma and wins Odisha for a fifth consecutive term on the strength of his welfare meas
Jammu & Kashmir
Victory and anxiety
The BJP’s handsome victory in the Jammu region gives rise to speculation and also fear in the valley that the party is bound to emerge as an unavoidab
Delhi
Capital gains
The BJP sweeps Delhi even as the ruling AAP stands weakened and the Congress sees signs of a revival.
Punjab
Captain’s victory
The Congress’ score of eight of the 13 seats was facilitated as much by the charisma of Congress Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh as by the badl
North-eastern States
Consolidating gains
The BJP continues to make strides in the region, notwithstanding the contentious Citizenship Bill issue, while the Congress loses ground.
Kerala
Hope in the south
The Congress-led United Democratic Front records a historic victory in the State in stark contrast to the trend elsewhere in the country.
Arunachal Assembly elections
BJP elected to power
SIKKIM Assembly elections
SKM ends Chamling’s 25-year rule
Jharkhand
Complete surprise
Defying trends visible on the ground during campaigning, Jharkhand once again goes the BJP way.
Karnataka
Ground regained
The BJP’s massive win destroys the Congress-JD(S)’ “Karnataka model” of political alternative and poses a threat to the very survival of the coalitio
Essay
India: Liberal Democracy and the Extreme Right
This article, written by Aijaz Ahmad in the summer of 2015, was published in the 2016 edition of Socialist Register, which is “‘an annual survey of mo
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Thames Water and the collapse of neoliberal privatisation
History does not agree with the BJP on Katchatheevu
The saint, the song, and the social revolution
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Kashmir: Valley of contention
Tastes of the earth
Did Periyar call for a genocide of Brahmins?
‘Enlightenment’: A Marathi story in translation
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Farewell Appappan
Why a proposed private port in Karnataka’s Honnavara faces stiff resistance from fisherfolk
India’s oscillating opposition and the dynamic evolution of protest politics
The crisis of the secular opposition
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Why the tiger-human conflict rages in Bandipur and Nagarahole
Minimum Support Price: A question of how, not why
Fali S. Nariman (1929-2024): A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise
Farmers’ protest: It’s a battle against servitude
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