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Bharat Bhushan: Why Narendra Modi keeps mum

Modi's real problem is not his silence on Hindutva excesses growing in the country. He needs to transform India without the minute-by-minute tweets

Bharat Bhushan: The Grinch wants to steal Christmas, again

It appears the Narendra Modi government is letting the Saffron Grinches go on a rampage so that mounting public anger allows it to come forward with legal provisions to prevent conversion

Bharat Bhushan: The pitfalls of being Modi

India's 24x7 PM may want to draw lessons from the experiences of Indira Gandhi between 1969 and 1977

Bharat Bhushan: Regional parties down but not out

Despite the flood of BJP victories, it is difficult to see how regional parties will disappear. These parties not only have the same development goals as the national parties but also promise good gov

Bharat Bhushan: Why Narendra Modi needs both 'Mohanlal' and Mohan Bhagwat

The prime minister has followed a dual strategy. He is invoking Gandhi to project himself as a statesman and yet, because he is essentially a politician, he has to take the RSS along as well

Bharat Bhushan: No secular summer yet

Ground realities suggest that there is little reason to term the by-election results a victory for secularism and a defeat for hate-politics

Bharat Bhushan: Chacha Modi or forging the Great Avuncular Leader

Narendra Modi seems convinced that the leadership of India is his calling

Bharat Bhushan: One hundred days of soliloquies

Anecdotes and stories might sustain Modi's image as a heroic prime minister, but soon the govt will be judged only by its performance

Bharat Bhushan: PM as pilgrim - or Indianness redefined

What we are witnessing is not just Hindu rituals in the public sphere but their use as mere instruments to create a predominantly Hindutva public sphere that marginalises others

Bharat Bhushan: Ambient intolerance goes up in the Modi era

With the temperature of Hindutva rising in the Indian social discourse, Narendra Modi is yet to become the inclusive leader that the high office he occupies demands of him

Bharat Bhushan: Choking democracy's safety valves

Instead of being an information provider, the Narendra Modi government has become an information captor

Bharat Bhushan: No temperament to lead

At a time when the Congress' stakes have shrunk, Rahul Gandhi should be focusing on putting the broken party structure together

Bharat Bhushan: The coming battle for Pataliputra

The Bharatiya Janata Party's quest to strengthen its base in north India starts from Bihar

Bharat Bhushan: The future shape of the Opposition

The Bharatiya Janata Party will continue to have a rightward tilt. So, challenging neoliberal economic policies will be key to the formation of a Centre-Left Opposition, which could happen in two to t

Bharat Bhushan: Congress freeloaders bring it to ruin

The party needs a new political culture and its leadership has to come from small towns, not the plush drawing rooms of Delhi

Bharat Bhushan: Muting the bully pulpit

Priyanka Gandhi's stance against Modi has exposed the low standards of public discourse he has chosen to adopt

Bharat Bhushan: Why Modi's selfie campaign is not picture-perfect

The consequences of Modi's campaign can prove to be negative and his political 'dysmorphic disorder' is bound to come in the way of delivering good governance

Bharat Bhushan: Modi is unsure if the surf's up

If the wave has become a tsunami, why is the BJP's prime ministerial candidate playing safe by polarising voters along communal lines?

Bharat Bhushan: Lessons for Narendra Modi from Indira Gandhi

Narendra Modi appears to be confronting the BJP's 'Old Guard' just as Indira Gandhi fought the 'Syndicate' within the Congress

Bharat Bhushan: So who's pulling the strings?

It won't be the Third Front, nor even a Federal Front. In case of a fractured verdict, a minority coalition comprising AIADMK, BJD and Trinamool Congress is the most likely outcome - but it's the BJP