Uttar Pradesh Losing the plot By VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNANThe Uttar Pradesh government’s self-congratulatory announcements turn out to be premature as accidents and controversies involving returning migrants
Politics Clueless captain Venkitesh RamakrishnanAs the nation longs for relief from the pandemic and the economic misery caused by an ill-planned lockdown, the government prefers symbolism over subs
Uttar Pradesh Anxiety over arrivals Venkitesh RamakrishnanUttar Pradesh is waiting with trepidation for the return of several lakh migrants throughout May.
Politics Raw deal to States Venkitesh RamakrishnanWhen cooperation and trust are the keywords for governments in the fight against COVID, the ruling dispensation at the Centre has, against the princip
Uttar Pradesh Season of distressVenkitesh RamakrishnanThe lockdown in the middle of the harvest season is bound to have a devastating effect on the State’s economy as most of the COVID-19 “Red Zone” distr
Government's response to the pandemic Symbolism vs substanceVenkitesh Ramakrishnan Purnima S. Tripathi The Prime Minister’s histrionics do not make up for his government’s failure to respond effectively and in time to the COVID-19 crisis.
Communalism Uttar Pradesh: Dog-whistle politics Divya Trivedi Venkitesh Ramakrishnan The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has resorted to naming and shaming activists in the State in order to further its plan to delegitimise
State collusion with rioters Shape of things to come Venkitesh Ramakrishnan The collusion between the government, communal aggressors, the police and activists of the ruling dispensation, which was all too evident in all the d
AAP's winning formula Venkitesh RamakrishnanThe Aam Aadmi Party’s emphatic victory in the Delhi Assembly election holds two important lessons for the BJP: one, performance in office pays; two, c
Davinder Singh arrest: The plot thickensVenkitesh Ramakrishnan Anando BhaktoThe dramatic arrest of Davinder Singh, Deputy Superintendent in the Jammu and Kashmir Police, along with Islamist militants raises new questions about
CAA-NRC Protests What is the BJP up to? Venkitesh Ramakrishnan The Centre’s brutal crackdown on the protests against the CAA is a naked assertion of the dispensation’s larger aim to fulfil the Sangh Parivar’s Hind
The numbers game Back-room politics Venkitesh Ramakrishnan Unmindful of the opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill both inside and outside Parliament and despite the fact that the numbers should have b
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
