After stitching the upper-caste and Dalit votes, the BJP now wants to make inroads into Other Backward Classes?
29 July 2022TMC chief Mamata Banerjee had proposed the names of Sharad Pawar, Farooq Abdullah and Gopalkrishna Gandhi, but the Congress and the Left block reached out to Yashwant Sinha instead
22 July 2022Several old allies who went out of the NDA seem to be on the same page with BJP when it comes to the latter’s presidential nominee
15 July 2022Modi may drop more of his Cabinet to bring in new faces considering that this might be the last reshuffle before the 2024 General Election
08 July 2022The BJP managed to win Azamgarh with tacit assistance from BSP leader Mayawati. She put up a local Muslim candidate who split the SP vote right down the middle
01 July 2022When Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai was asked to sing a song
24 June 2022The policy against noise in public areas is not just about mosques
17 June 2022Resolving Turkey’s wheat crisis following Russia’s war on Ukraine
10 June 2022When Hemant Soren was asked to give one Rajya Sabha seat to the Congress, he turned down the proposal and gave the seat to a local tribal leader instead
03 June 2022Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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