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Avert hunger: Continue free rations and MNREGA jobs

At a time like this when the poor are barely beginning to get their household economy together, any weakening of their twin lifelines - free rations and MNREGA - would be grossly insensitive

Rebuffed Prashant Kishor turns against the Congress

Prashant Kishor, a successful poll strategist, recently warned the Congress that the BJP was there for the long term and Rahul Gandhi could ignore this fact only at his own peril

Will economic stress and hunger lead to political change?

Will economic distress affect how people perceive the role of the political class as a whole, and judge how they responded to their suffering?

Kashmir's targeted killings: The costs of un-wrinkling history?

The militants aim may be no more than to frighten Kashmiri Pandits trying to reclaim properties and to challenge official position of normalcy after the revocation of the provisions of Article 370.

Picture perfect: Indian media is more than 'better behaved'

US President had held more than 140 media interactions since he took charge in January. He has held more interactions in eight months than the seven years that Prime Minister Modi has been in office

Birthday gala to refurbish 'Brand Modi'

Organising various birthday events is a clever way of mobilising BJP workers. Each performance will reaffirm their link with the leader of the party

Fear factor: Corporates must resist intimidation

Corporate leaders should consider promoting an expansion of democratic spaces and proliferation of alternative political visions.

Spectre of caste census limits BJP's OBC politics

Even among OBC parties that support a caste census, this could be a miscalculation because these largely family-run 'Mom and Pop' shops are seen as representing the dominant castes among the OBC.

'Mandalisation' of BJP or election engineering for UP?

Mayawati's wooing of Brahmins did not make the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) a 'Manuvadi' party. The 'Mandalisation' of the BJP is an electoral contingency

Pegasus impact: Loss to Indian Republic and government is much greater

Just the fear of intrusive surveillance can have disastrous consequences for India's democratic functioning.

'Gupkar gang' will not throw the match in Jammu & Kashmir

The participation of the J&K political parties should not be seen as an endorsement of state reorganisation any more than their participation in the District Development Council elections was

Gandhi family's dilemmas weakening party and delaying Opposition unity

If the internal dilemmas and confusions of the Gandhi family are not resolved, the Congress could well see departures from its ranks after the 2024 general elections to ideologically close parties

Elections before statehood in Jammu & Kashmir: Can a cart pull a horse?

The demand for restoration of statehood before elections is likely to have popular support both in Jammu and in the Kashmir Valley

Why BJP welcomes turncoats under the benign gaze of RSS

After its West Bengal debacle the BJP must once again demonstrate that it is a party attractive to power seekers. Defections from other parties help to showcase it as a potential winner.

Half-life of half-truths: Can diplomacy stop decaying governance?

Is the Modi government being harshly judged internationally because its leaders being less familiar with English are 'less connected to other global centres'?

Launching a 'Desi' BBC: Is there global appetite for India's point of view?

The UK has BBC World, France has France 24 and TV5 Monde Asie, Germany has DW TV, China has multilingual global CCTV, CGTN and CNC World, Russia has Russia Today in English and Spanish, Japan has NHK-

Who destroyed India's vaccine self-sufficiency?

India's self-sufficiency in vaccine production was destroyed one and half decades ago under the UPA-I government, by moving vaccine manufacture and government procurement to the private sector

No quick-fix for leadership change in government

Prime Minister Modi remains unassailable either from within the BJP or outside it, even though today his popularity may have taken a beating.

Covid-19 drugs: Eager beavers of BJP play God

Cornering of scarce resources by those with money and power is unjustifiable under any circumstances

Fixing India's global image

In the last one year, India has slipped on more than a dozen global indices leading the government to look for ways to improve its international rankings