General election 2024

What’s At Stake?

PR Ramesh

The upcoming Assembly elections will provide BJP cues for the General Election next year

I.N.D.I.A. and Its Discontents

PR Ramesh

An Opposition alliance has unseated a strong incumbent at the Centre only when it has had a promise to sell and a charismatic leader. The anti-Modi alliance has neither while its own contradictions threaten to pull it apart

The Circle Gets Bigger

MJ Akbar

The conceptual daring and strategic potential of an economic corridor

Modi Factor

Virendra Kapoor

The respondents considered Modi a strong and charismatic leader who alone could stand up to a belligerent China and a hostile Pakistan

Tripping in Alliance Hall

MJ Akbar

And what Oppenheimer really said

A Call to Arms

Rajeev Deshpande

Can the grand alliance of the Opposition survive its inbuilt contradictions before taking on the ruling coalition led by Modi at his peak?

‘Total Politics’ at Play

Rajeev Deshpande

The splits in NCP and Shiv Sena have expanded NDA and hurt the Opposition’s efforts to present a united challenge to Narendra Modi in 2024

The Loneliness of the Patriarch

PR Ramesh

NCP’s best Lok Sabha tally was nine seats two decades ago but that never came in the way of Sharad Pawar being projected as a prime ministerial candidate. That image of the wily strategist has been shattered by Ajit Pawar’s departure